Showrunner, playwright and performer Rick Cleveland has signed with the APA to star in, diverse I learned exclusively. Cleveland will continue to be represented by Rain as well as attorney Ken Richman at Hansen Jacobson Teller
Cleveland is a six-time Emmy nominee, and won Best Writing for a Drama Series alongside Aaron Sorkin for the season one episode of “The West Wing” titled “In Excelsis Deo.” Cleveland was subsequently nominated three times as part of the production time on the hit HBO series “Six Feet Under” and again as part of the producing teams for the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” and the Netflix series “House of Cards”.
Cleveland has also acted on a number of other critically acclaimed shows. Among them are series such as AMC’s Mad Men, Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, the adult animated comedy “Archer”, TNT’s Claws, and Netflix’s “Insatiable.” He was also the presenter on the FX comedy series “Legit” starring Jim Jefferies, where the show was loosely based on Jefferies’ life and stand-up comedy. Cleveland has also written several screenplays, such as the 2003 John Grisham adaptation of Runaway Jury, as well as the 1994 independent film Jerry and Tom, based on the one-act play of the same name.
Cleveland is a graduate of Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa and is also a founding member of the American Blues Theater in Chicago. As a performer, he is best known for “My Buddy Bill” about his fictional friendship with President Bill Clinton, a play soliloquy that was filmed as the Comedy Central Special.
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