Tom Kapinos

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Tom Kapinos is an American television writer and screenwriter best known for his creation of the Showtime series Californication and the Fox series Lucifer.

Early life

Kapinos attended Island Trees School District on Long Island, New York.{{cite web|url= https://patch.com/new-york/levittown-ny/in-retirement-mr-amato-is-still-teaching|title=In Retirement, Mr. Amato Is Still Teaching|publisher=Patch.com|location=Levittown, New York|first=Justin|last=Izzo|date=March 29, 2012|accessdate=December 1, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202003411/https://patch.com/new-york/levittown-ny/in-retirement-mr-amato-is-still-teaching|archivedate=December 2, 2018|url-status=live}}

Career

Kapinos moved from New York to California in the mid-1990s, working in Los Angeles for Creative Artists Agency as a staff story analyst. In 1999, Fox 2000 purchased his first sold screenplay, The Virgin Mary, with actress Jennifer Aniston attached to play the title role.{{cite web|last1=Petrikin|first1=Chris|title=Fox 2000 buys 'Virgin' spec|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/news/fox-2000-buys-virgin-spec-1117491259/|website=Variety|accessdate=January 2, 2018|date=February 11, 1999}} The film was never made, but after reading The Virgin Mary the producers of Dawson's Creek offered Kapinos a job.{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3108 |title=Sex, Lies and Californication |author=Tara de Bach |publisher=Writers Guild of America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719033937/http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3108|archive-date=July 19, 2009|accessdate=3 February 2012}}

After beginning his career in television in 1999 as a writer and eventually executive producer on Dawson's Creek, Kapinos moved on to his own series, Californication, a dramedy on which he was executive producer and chief writer.

Filmography

=Television=

The numbers in writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" ! rowspan="2" scope="col"\| Title ! rowspan="2" scope="col"\| Year ! colspan="3" scope="col"\| Credited as ! rowspan="2" scope="col"\| Network ! rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"\| Notes
Creator ! Writer ! Executive Producer
scope=row\| Dawson's Creek \| 1998–2003 \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} (20) \| {{yes}} \| The WB \| Creative consultant {{small\|(season 3: 13 episodes)}} Co-producer {{small\|(season 3: 10 episodes)}} Supervising producer {{small\|(season 4)}}
scope=row\| Californication \| 2007–14 \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} (66) \| {{yes}} \| Showtime \|
scope=row\| Dead People \| 2015 \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| The CW \| Unaired pilot
scope=row\| Lucifer \| 2016–2021 \| {{yes\|Developer}} \| {{yes}} (1) \| {{yes}} \| Fox Netflix \| Executive consultant {{small\|(34 episodes)}}
scope=row\| Roadies \| 2016 \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} (1) \| {{no}} \| Showtime \|
scope=row\| White Famous \| 2017 \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} (10) \| {{yes}} \| Showtime \|
scope=row\| Lovestruck \| 2019 \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| Fox \| Unaired pilot

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Creator

! Writer

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Producer

scope=row| Dawson's Creek

| 1998–2003

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