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| Oliver Goldstick |
Oliver Goldstick is an award-winning playwright, television screenwriter, and producer.
Originally from Detroit, Goldstick received a degree from the University of
Michigan, followed by graduate work at Columbia University where his plays were
produced off-Broadway including Dinah Was
(2000). In 2009 his play Wild Boy (adapted from Not Even Wrong by Paul
Collins), had its premiere in Los Angeles at the Pacific Resident Theatre. His
plays have earned him Dramalogue and Hopwood awards as well as nominations from
the NAACP Theatre and L. A. Ovation Awards.
Most notably,
Goldstick is credited as executive producer and writer for a number of
television series including Desperate
Housewives, Lipstick Jungle, Ugly Betty, Everwood, State of Mind, Partners, Coach, and Caroline in the
City. He is the executive producer and writer for the Emmy award-winning
ABC series Pretty Little Liars.
In association
with BBC Worldwide, he is currently filming The
Collection, Amazon’s first original UK drama series which are 8 hour-long
episodes. The show tells the story of an illustrious Paris fashion house
(think: Dior) just after World War II.
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| Paul Collins |
Paul Collins is a writer specializing in
history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His seven books have been
translated into eleven languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into the Lost History of Autism
(2004), and The Murder of the Century:
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
(2011). He is a 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. His
recent freelance work includes pieces for the New York Times, Slate,
and New Scientist.
In addition
to appearing regularly on NPR's Weekend
Edition Saturday as its resident “literary detective” on odd and forgotten
old books, he is also the founding editor of the Collins Library imprint of McSweeney's Books, where he has revived
such disparate works as a World War I internment camp memoir and an absurdist
1934 detective tale.
Collins
lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches creative nonfiction as an associate
professor in the MFA program at Portland State University. He is currently
the chair of the English Department.
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