Dee Johnson
{{short description|American television producer and writer}}
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| name = Dee Johnson
| image = Dee Johnson at PaleyFest 2013.jpg
| caption = Johnson at the PaleyFest 2013 panel on the TV show Nashville
| birth_date =November 17
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| occupation = Television writer and producer
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Dee Johnson is an American television producer and writer. She has worked on the series ER, Melrose Place, Commander in Chief, Southland, The Good Wife
{{cite web|last=Bendix |first=Trish |url=http://www.afterellen.com/dee-johnson-the-lesbian-producer-behind-er-rizzoli-isles-and-the-good-wife/08/2012/ |title=Dee Johnson: The lesbian producer behind "E.R.," "Rizzoli & Isles" and "The Good Wife" |publisher=AfterEllen.com |date=2012-08-03 |accessdate=2013-11-28}} and was an executive producer and showrunner on Nashville for seasons one through four, exiting after the fourth season.{{Cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2016/03/23/nashville-season-5-marshall-herskovitz-ed-zwick-new-showrunners/|title=Nashville Twist: Marshall Herskovitz and ed Zwick to Take over as Showrunners in Likely Season 5|date=23 March 2016}} In 2023, Johnson was an executive producer for the Peabody Award-winning miniseries https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/fellow-travelers/ Fellow Travelers. The series won the award for Chronicling LGBTQ+ History Over 50 Years.
Life and career
Johnson began her career as a writer in Fox primetime soap opera Melrose Place. She was one of the major writers of Melrose Place from 1993 to 1995. She was writer of 19 episodes on ER, and also worked in show as co-executive producer. In 2005, Johnson was nominated for Humanitas Prize Award for ER.{{cite web |url=http://www.humanitasprize.org/News/00s/2005%20June%20-%20HUMANITAS%20Prize%20finalists%20announced.pdf |title=2005 Humanitas Prize Finalists Announced |first=Charley |last=Daniels |date=June 7, 2005 |accessdate=2013-07-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203220039/http://www.humanitasprize.org/News/00s/2005%20June%20-%20HUMANITAS%20Prize%20finalists%20announced.pdf |archivedate=2013-12-03 }} Her other credits include I'll Fly Away, Profiler, Any Day Now, Army Wives, Southland, Rizzoli & Isles, and The Good Wife.
From 2005 to 2006, Johnson was an executive producer on Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis as the United States' first female President. In 2009, she joined the staff of police drama Southland as a writer and consulting producer for the first season. In 2010, she became an executive producer for the legal drama The Good Wife. In 2012, she was an executive producer for 10 episodes of second season on Boss, and took part by writing two episodes.{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833285/fullcredits/|title = Boss|date = |access-date = |website = IMDB|publisher = |last = |first = }} She was later called in to work as showrunner and executive producer on ABC drama Nashville starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere.{{cite web|last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2012/08/dee-johnson-joins-abcs-nashville-as-new-showrunner-inks-overall-deal-323128/ |title=Dee Johnson Joins ABC's 'Nashville' As New Showrunner, Inks Overall Deal |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |date= 22 August 2012|access-date=2013-11-28}} For her work on Nashville and The Good Wife, Johnson was nominated for Writers Guild of America Award.{{cite web|last=Nadel |first=Nick |url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/12/06/wga-awards-2013-nominees/ |title=WGA Awards nominees announced | Inside TV | EW.com |publisher=Insidetv.ew.com |date=2012-12-06 |accessdate=2013-11-28}}{{cite web |url=https://www.collider.com/2009/12/15/writers-guild-of-america-announces-tv-nominations/ |title=Writers Guild of America Announces TV Nominations |publisher=Collider |accessdate=2013-11-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008052127/http://www.collider.com/2009/12/15/writers-guild-of-america-announces-tv-nominations/ |archivedate=2010-10-08 }}
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|0424934|Dee Johnson}}
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Category:American television producers
Category:American women television producers
Category:American television writers
Category:American women television writers
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Category:American LGBTQ writers