Oliver Goldstick (born January 9, 1961) is an American television screenwriter and executive producer, working on Netflix’s new series

Bridgerton ''Bridgerton'' is an American historical- romance streaming television series created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix. Based on the book series by Julia Quinn, it is Shondaland's first scripted show for Netflix. It revolves around the epony ...

. Prior to this, Goldstick launched High School Musical: The Series for

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and spent seven years writing, directing, and showrunning the series, Pretty Little Liars. During that time, he also wrote and produced The Collection, an original, limited series set in the sumptuous, postwar world of Paris fashion for

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, Amazon U.K. and PBS-Masterpiece. His other credits include

Ugly Betty ''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC. It premiered on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombi ...

, Lipstick Jungle,

Desperate Housewives ''Desperate Housewives'' is an American comedy-drama soap opera television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012, for a t ...

American Dreams ''American Dreams'' is an American drama television series that ran on NBC for three seasons & 61 episodes, from September 29, 2002, to March 30, 2005. The show tells the story of the Pryor family of Philadelphia during the mid-1960s, with many ...

Everwood ''Everwood'' (known as ''Our New Life in Everwood'' in the United Kingdom) is an American drama television series created by Greg Berlanti. Berlanti, Mickey Liddell, Rina Mimoun, Andrew A. Ackerman and Michael Green served as executive produce ...

, Inconceivable, Popular, Coach, and

Plainsong Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French ''plain-chant''; la, cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring to the term plainsong, it is those sacred pieces that are composed in Latin text ...

for

Hallmark Hall of Fame ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', originally called ''Hallmark Television Playhouse'', is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company. The longest-running prime-time series in ...

. Trained as a playwright, Goldstick’s theatre credits include Dinah Was, an Obie-winning tribute to R & B legend, Dinah Washington. This off-Broadway production was later broadcast on NPR. His play 'Wild Boy' explores the challenges of

autism The autism spectrum, often referred to as just autism or in the context of a professional diagnosis autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental condition (or conditions) characterized by difficulti ...

. For his television work, Goldstick has received the Golden Globe, Writers Guild Award, three People’s Choice Awards, GLAAD Award, NAACP Image Award, and a Peabody Award. A native of Detroit, Goldstick is a graduate of the U-Michigan and Columbia University, and currently resides with his family in Los Angeles.

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