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Lawrence Trilling
Lawrence Trilling (born June 29, 1966) is an American television director, producer, showrunner, and writer. He has directed nearly 150 hours of television to date, and served as producer/executive producer on such series as Felicity, Alias, Parenthood, Pushing Daisies, Goliath, and Outer Range. He has directed episodes of many popular series, including Scrubs, Monk, Masters of Sex, Damages, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Snowfall.
Trilling was born in Wayne, New Jersey, and moved to Santa Monica, California, when he was three. At Lincoln Jr. High, Trilling met fellow future director Matt Reeves, who inspired Trilling with his Super 8 film camera and editing system. Together, they co-wrote several films, which Reeves directed and Trilling starred in. One of those films, The Loser, was screened at a student film festival at the Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles, where they befriended fellow filmmaker J. J. Abrams.
Trilling graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1984. He attended Columbia University and graduated with a B.A. in English Literature in 1988, and received an MFA in Film and Television Production from UCLA in 1992.
Trilling's first break was selling the screenplay Delivered, a black comedy he co-wrote with his childhood friend and fellow pizza delivery driver, Andrew Liotta. The script, about an angry, overeducated pizza man who is mistaken for a local serial killer, was produced by Banner Entertainment and premiered at the Seattle Film Festival in 1998. The same year, he directed the film Dinner and Driving, a romantic comedy about the anxiety of commitment, which he co-wrote with his cousin, Steven Wolfson. The film played multiple festivals and aired on HBO and Lifetime, and later streamed on Netflix.
Trilling made his television directorial debut in Season One of Felicity, when he directed the acclaimed episode "The Fugue". He became a Producer/Director for season two and directed 14 episodes over the show's four seasons. On the strength of his work on Felicity, he was hired to direct two other dramas for the WB Network; Roswell for Jason Katims and Popular, Ryan Murphy's debut series.
After their collaboration on Felicity, Trilling followed J. J. Abrams to Alias, where he directed episodes throughout season two and became a producer/director for seasons three and four. He also wrote and directed the film Porn n' Chicken, which was Comedy Central's first original movie. After this, Trilling became a frequent director on the hit NBC comedy series, Scrubs, helming six episodes in the first two seasons.
Trilling then worked for Warner Bros. and ABC as producer/director on Invasion and Pushing Daisies. During this period, he also directed episodes of Damages, Monk, Brothers & Sisters, Life, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, among others.
In 2010, he directed the feature film comedy Group Sex, which he co-wrote with Greg Grunberg, starring Henry Winkler.
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Lawrence Trilling
Lawrence Trilling (born June 29, 1966) is an American television director, producer, showrunner, and writer. He has directed nearly 150 hours of television to date, and served as producer/executive producer on such series as Felicity, Alias, Parenthood, Pushing Daisies, Goliath, and Outer Range. He has directed episodes of many popular series, including Scrubs, Monk, Masters of Sex, Damages, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Snowfall.
Trilling was born in Wayne, New Jersey, and moved to Santa Monica, California, when he was three. At Lincoln Jr. High, Trilling met fellow future director Matt Reeves, who inspired Trilling with his Super 8 film camera and editing system. Together, they co-wrote several films, which Reeves directed and Trilling starred in. One of those films, The Loser, was screened at a student film festival at the Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles, where they befriended fellow filmmaker J. J. Abrams.
Trilling graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1984. He attended Columbia University and graduated with a B.A. in English Literature in 1988, and received an MFA in Film and Television Production from UCLA in 1992.
Trilling's first break was selling the screenplay Delivered, a black comedy he co-wrote with his childhood friend and fellow pizza delivery driver, Andrew Liotta. The script, about an angry, overeducated pizza man who is mistaken for a local serial killer, was produced by Banner Entertainment and premiered at the Seattle Film Festival in 1998. The same year, he directed the film Dinner and Driving, a romantic comedy about the anxiety of commitment, which he co-wrote with his cousin, Steven Wolfson. The film played multiple festivals and aired on HBO and Lifetime, and later streamed on Netflix.
Trilling made his television directorial debut in Season One of Felicity, when he directed the acclaimed episode "The Fugue". He became a Producer/Director for season two and directed 14 episodes over the show's four seasons. On the strength of his work on Felicity, he was hired to direct two other dramas for the WB Network; Roswell for Jason Katims and Popular, Ryan Murphy's debut series.
After their collaboration on Felicity, Trilling followed J. J. Abrams to Alias, where he directed episodes throughout season two and became a producer/director for seasons three and four. He also wrote and directed the film Porn n' Chicken, which was Comedy Central's first original movie. After this, Trilling became a frequent director on the hit NBC comedy series, Scrubs, helming six episodes in the first two seasons.
Trilling then worked for Warner Bros. and ABC as producer/director on Invasion and Pushing Daisies. During this period, he also directed episodes of Damages, Monk, Brothers & Sisters, Life, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, among others.
In 2010, he directed the feature film comedy Group Sex, which he co-wrote with Greg Grunberg, starring Henry Winkler.