Years active 1997–present Education Haverford College Spouse Natalya Preiser (m. 2004) | Role Television writer Name Mark Hudis | |
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Born February 19, 1968 (age 56) ( 1968-02-19 ) Tarrytown, New York, U.S.A. Occupation Television writer, producer Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series Shows True Blood, That '70s Show Similar People Mark Brazill, Alan Ball, Linda Wallem, Nancy Fichman, Liz Brixius | ||
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Mark Hudis (born February 19, 1968) is an American television writer and producer who has worked on a variety of shows including Cybill, That '70s Show, Nurse Jackie and True Blood. In 2010, his work on Nurse Jackie earned him both Writers Guild of America and Emmy Award nominations. Hudis attended Haverford College, a liberal arts school located outside of Philadelphia, and graduated in 1990.
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He began his career writing for magazines. His work has appeared in MAD, GQ and Playboy.
Career
Hudis began his writing career in 1997 when he received story credit for the Cybill episode "Like Family". He co-wote the episode "Bakersfield" with Alan Ball in 1998 and was then recruited as a writer and story editor on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. He remained a writer on the series for its entire eight season run, eventually becoming an executive producer at the beginning of its seventh season. He wrote a total of twenty-two episodes during the show's run. He became a writer and co-executive producer on Showtime's Nurse Jackie in 2009 and was an executive producer during the show's second season in 2010. Hudis worked on the writing staff of Alan Ball's vampire series True Blood for its fourth season in 2011.
Awards and nominations
In 2011, Hudis received a Writers Guild of America award nomination and an Emmy award nomination for Nurse Jackie, which he shared with the entire writing staff.