Mark Goffman

Goffman began writing professionally in Brussels, for the magazine Commerce in Belgium. He went on to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to receive a masters in public policy. He has written speeches for state and federally elected officials and has consulted to the United States Department of State and the White House.^[3]

Goffman has a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Emory University and served as a Masters Thesis Advisor, Fiction Writing Program, at Johns Hopkins University.

Goffman began his TV writing career in 2002 as a staff writer on The West Wing, where he wrote for several seasons. In 2006, he joined NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, where he was a producer and ran the writers' room.^[4]

Goffman has worked on more than 200 hours of scripted television, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards, and won the Entertainment Industries Council SET Award.^[5] The Hollywood Reporter has listed Goffman as one of the 50 most influential writers in television. One of his episodes of Law and Order: SVU garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mariska Hargitay in 2009.^[6][7] He has also served as the showrunner for seasons 1 and 2 on Fox's Sleepy Hollow, as well as an executive producer for CBS's Limitless and USA Network's White Collar.^[8] His pilot I Am Victor, starring John Stamos, was produced for NBC.^[9]

Goffman also wrote and directed the critically acclaimed feature documentary, Dumbstruck, a film about ventriloquists, which was released in Spring 2011 by Magnolia Pictures.^[10]

Goffman's play, Me Too, produced by David O. Sacks, premiered at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood.^[11]

In 2020, Goffman appeared as a guest on the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraiser episode of The George Lucas Talk Show.