Name Nancy Fichman | Role Film writer | |
Occupation Screenwriter
Television writer Movies The Dead Will Tell, Fortune Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series Similar Jennifer Hoppe, Christine Zander, Liz Brixius, Liz Flahive, Evan Dunsky | ||
Nancy Fichman is an American film and television writer, having worked on series such as Nurse Jackie and Damages. She also wrote the 2005 made-for-television movie The Dead Will Tell. She often works with her writing partner Jennifer Hoppe-House. The pair have two screenplays currently in development, Lost Girls and The Allegation.
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Film
Fichman and Hoppe-House are the writers of an upcoming film entitled Fortune, which takes place in Las Vegas and tells the intersecting story of a petty thief seeking a way out of his life after a roadside killing and two sisters who team up to collect a bounty on a mobster. The film, directed by Clark Johnson, was shot in Canada on in August, 2011. The two also have two screenplays in development. The first, Lost Girls, revolves around a small-town lawyer in Canada defending a serial killer who begins to have flashbacks of crimes he may have committed in childhood. The second, The Allegation, tells the story of a marriage that begins to fall apart when their lives are interrupted by a blackmailer.
Television
Fichman and Hoppe-House served as story editors and staff writers on the first two seasons of Nurse Jackie and as story editors on the fourth season of Damages. They contributed two scripts for each series.
Awards and nominations
In 2009 and 2010, Fichman and Hoppe-House were nomination for a Writers Guild of America award. Both nominations were for their work on Nurse Jackie.