American television producer and screenwriter
Mark V. Olsen (born 1962) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He was the co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series "Big Love" and Getting On along with his writing partner and husband Will Scheffer. In 2007, Olsen and Scheffer won a TV Writers Guild of America Award for the pilot episode of "Big Love".
Overview.
Olsen grew up in Hastings, Nebraska. He is also an attorney, and a member of the New York bar.
Olsen is openly gay; since the early 1990s, he and professional partner Will Scheffer have also been married to each other.
Prior to the television show "Big Love", Olsen co-produced the independent feature-length movie "Easter" (2002), which was originally written as a play by Scheffer. Olsen also wrote a six-part miniseries for HBO known as "Mary Chestnut's Civil War".
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