Warren Leight | ||
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Date of birth 17 January 1957 | ||
Place of birth Sunnyside, Queens, New York | ||
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Warren Leight is a producer and writer who worked on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and was the showrunner for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from Season 13 to Season 17. Afterwards, Rick Eid was showrunner for Season 18, before Michael Chernuchin became showrunner from Season 19 to Season 20. He returned to SVU for Season 21 to Season 23.
On a suggestion from playwright Theresa Rebeck, Criminal Intent executive producer René Balcer hired Leight to join the staff of the series in its second season as a writer/producer. His colleagues included a reference to Leight's play Side Man in a third season episode, "Shrink-Wrapped"; a bickering couple argues about the motivations of the married couple in the play. Upon a recommendation from Balcer, Leight was named the show's executive producer and head writer in 2006 when Balcer left the show at the end of the fifth season. In 2008 he left the show after the seventh season he was replaced with Walon Green, Robert Nathan, and Ed Zuckerman to be the new showrunners for the show starting with the eighth season.
It has been confirmed that Leight will be executive producer alongside Dick Wolf in the upcoming series Law & Order: Hate Crimes.
Trivia[]
- A trademark of Leight's tenure as showrunner is the title length of episodes generally are the same number of letters as the season numbers.
Credits[]
Writer[]
- Story and teleplay:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Season 2: "Suite Sorrow" • "Cuba Libre" • "Zoonotic"
- Season 3: "Pravda" • "Pas de Deux" • "Consumed"
- Season 4: "Inert Dwarf" • "Death Roe" • "My Good Name"
- Season 5: "Acts of Contrition" • "Proud Flesh" • "Cruise to Nowhere"
- Season 6: "Endgame"
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Story:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Season 2: "A Person of Interest"
- Season 3: "D.A.W."
- Season 4: "Stress Position"
- Season 5: "Diamond Dogs" "To the Bone"
- Season 6: "Blind Spot" • "Tru Love" • "Siren Call" • "Bedfellows" • "Masquerade" • "Country Crossover" • "The War at Home" • "Blasters" • "Weeping Willow" • "World's Fair" • "Albatross" • "Flipped" • "Brother's Keeper" • "30" • "Players" • "Silencer" • "Rocket Man" • "Bombshell" • "Renewal"
- Season 7 : "Amends" • "Seeds" • "Smile" • "Lonelyville" • "Depths" • "Self-made" • "Senseless" • "Purgatory" • "Contract" • "Betrayed" • "Assassin" • "Kissinger" • "Reunion" • "Vanishing Act" • "Ten Count" • "Legacy" • "Neighborhood Watch" • "Last Rites" • "Frame"
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
- Season 13: "Theatre Tricks" • "Hunting Ground" • "Child's Welfare" • "Justice Denied" • "Father Dearest" • "Learning Curve"
- Season 14: "Twenty-Five Acts" • "Vanity's Bonfire" • "Monster's Legacy" • "Girl Dishonored" • "Poisoned Motive"
- Season 15: "October Surprise" • "Amaro's One-Eighty" • "Wednesday's Child" • "Comic Perversion" • "Criminal Stories" • "Downloaded Child" • "Thought Criminal"
- Season 16: "Girls Disappeared" • "Producer's Backend" • "Pornstar's Requiem" • "Glasgowman's Wrath" • "Chicago Crossover" • "Spousal Privilege" • "Padre Sandunguero" • "Granting Immunity" • "Daydream Believer" • "Perverted Justice"
- Season 17: "Transgender Bridge" • "Patrimonial Burden" • "Manhattan Transfer"
- Season 21: "Down Low In Hell's Kitchen" • "The Burden Of Our Choices" • "Murdered at a Bad Address" • "Counselor, It's Chinatown" • "We Dream Of Machine Elves" • "Can't Be Held Accountable" • "Must Be Held Accountable" • "The Longest Night Of Rain" • "Redemption In Her Corner" • "I Deserve Some Loving Too" • "Swimming With The Sharks" • "Dance, Lies and Video Tape"
- Season 22: "Guardians and Gladiators" • "Welcome to the Pedo Motel" • "In The Year We All Fell Down" • "Trick-Rolled At The Moulin'" • "Post-Graduate Psychopath" • "Wolves In Sheep's Clothing"
- Season 23: "Never Turn Your Back On Them" • "The Five Hundredth Episode" • "People Vs Richard Wheatley" • "Silent Night, Hateful Night" • "If I Knew Then What I Know Now" • "Video Killed The Radio Star" • "Promising Young Gentlemen" • "Confess Your Sins To Be Free"
- Chicago P.D.:
- Season 2: "The Number of Rats"
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Teleplay:
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
- Season 14: "Deadly Ambition"
- Season 15: "American Tragedy" • "Wonderland Story" • "Gambler's Fallacy"
- Season 16: "Holden's Manifesto"
- Season 17: "Devil's Dissections" • "Criminal Pathology" • "Community Policing" • "Maternal Instincts" • "Melancholy Pursuit"
- Season 22: "Turn Me On Take Me Private" • "The Long Arm Of The Witness" • "In The Year We All Fell Down"
- Season 23: "I Thought You Were On My Side" • "Silent Night, Hateful Night" • "Tangled Strands Of Justice"
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
- Written by:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Season 6: "Privilege"
- Season 7: "Courtship" • "Untethered"
- Season 10: "Trophy Wine"
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
- Season 13: "Blood Brothers" • "Missing Pieces" • "Spiraling Down" • "Father's Shadow" • "Valentine's Day" • "Rhodium Nights"
- Season 14: "Lost Reputation" • "Above Suspicion" • "Dreams Deferred" • "Secrets Exhumed" • "Born Psychopath" • "Her Negotiation"
- Season 15: "Surrender Benson" • "Imprisoned Lives" • "Rapist Anonymous" • "Psycho/Therapist" • "Beast's Obsession" • "Post-Mortem Blues"
- Season 16: "American Disgrace" • "Forgiving Rollins" • "Undercover Mother" • "Surrendering Noah"
- Season 17: "Nationwide Manhunt"
- Season 21: "I'm Going To Make You a Star" • "The Darkest Journey Home" • "The Things We Have To Lose"
- Season 22: "Remember Me In Quarantine" • "Sightless in a Savage Land" • "Return Of The Prodigal Son"
- Season 23: "And The Empire Strikes Back" • "A Final Call At Forlini's Bar"
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
Producer[]
- Producer:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Season 2: "Tomorrow" • "The Pilgrim" • "Shandeh" • "Baggage" • "Probability" • "Cuba Libre" • "Cherry Red" • "Blink" • "Graansha" • "Zoonotic" • "A Person of Interest"
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent:
- Co-Executive producer: