Emmy award winner Jeff Melvoin has been a writer-producer on over a dozen primetime series, most recently as an Executive Producer on season three of the BBC America series, Killing Eve. Other Executive Producer credits include Designated Survivor, Army Wives, Alias, Early Edition, and Picket Fences. He was Supervising Producer of the CBS series Northern Exposure, for which he won an Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards. Other writer-producer credits include the NBC series Hill Street Blues and Remington Steele.
Melvoin is founder and chair of the Writers Guild of America’s Showrunner Training Program, now in its 19th year, and the Writers Education Committee, as well as a recipient of the 2015 Morgan Cox Award, the WGA’s highest recognition for Guild service.
He has taught at USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA, Harvard, and the Sundance Institute, and led sessions at the inaugural European Showrunner Programme in 2022 and again in 2023. Melvoin is a past board member of the Mystery Writers of America (Southern California Chapter) and the Writers Guild of America, West. Before entering television, Melvoin was a Time magazine correspondent.
In 2023, Jeff published Running the Show: Television from the Inside on the essential skills needed for building a show from the ground up. Amongst the accolades from his fellow US showrunners: “A wonderful ride through the raging waters of creating television. It’s a book full of sharp insights, great advice, and legitimate wisdom.” J.J. Abrams, Executive Producer, Director (Star Wars, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Alias)