Eric Lodal (born January 30, 1976) is an American

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

, creator, producer and

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. He has written and developed original television series and feature films for Warner Brothers, F/X, TNT, Fox Studios, Sonar, Sony and New Regency., Retrieved February 5, 2017 He is noted for co-creating and showrunning ''Murder in the First'' which is currently distributed b
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Lodal has also developed TV series with

William Broyles Jr. William Dodson Broyles Jr.
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(Laredo),

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(Search and Rescue),

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(Bel Canto), and

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(Simple City), amongst others. Lodal is currently working on several projects including a dramatic rendering of the Kennedy presidency, which he has developed with novelist Scott Lasser (Battle Creek, True Detective) and Zona, a new crime series set in the world of human trafficking. Lodal spent his twenties engaged in a number of diverse professional pursuits, ranging from classical music to politics and investment banking. An Eagle Scout, All State Football player and Virginia Academic Player of the Year (1994), as well as a classically trained opera singer, Lodal has performed as a soloist at

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, with the

New York City Opera The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through its 2013 bankruptcy, and again since 2016 when it was revived. The opera company, dubbed "the peopl ...

, and was featured on NPR's "World of Opera". He served as Communications Director for former Governor of Virginia and current US Senator

Tim Kaine Timothy Michael Kaine ( ; born February 26, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States senator from Virginia since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States ...

. A native of

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, he received his B.A. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

with a double major in economics and music, and a master's degree from

The Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lodal, Eric 1976 births Living people American male screenwriters American television producers American television directors Writers from Virginia