Leonard Dick is a television writer and producer who writes for ''

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''. Leonard was born in

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, and attended high school at

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, where he was elected head of Howard's House, and thus served on the Board of Stewards. He graduated from

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with both a BA and MBA. He worked on the first two seasons of the ABC

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'' Lost'', garnering him a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award, as well as an

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for Outstanding Drama. Dick and the writing staff won the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the

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and

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seasons of ''Lost''. They were nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony for their work on the second and

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seasons. Dick was later a writer and supervising producer for

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, where he shared three nominations for Outstanding Drama at the Emmys, as well as a writer, co-executive producer, and executive producer for ''

,'' spanning more 129 episodes, receiving another Outstanding Drama Series Emmy nomination. Other series he has written for include ''The Mentalist'', '' Fastlane'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the Fox sketch comedy ''

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''.

Television credits

* '' Lost'' (2004) TV Series ** 1x17: '' ...In Translation'' ** 1x21: '' The Greater Good'' ** 2x02: '' Adrift'' ** 2x08: ''

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'' ** 2x13: '' The Long Con'' ** 2x19: '' S.O.S.'' *''

'' (2004) TV Series ** 3x11: ''Words and Deeds'' ** 3x23 ''

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'' ** 4x02 '' The Right Stuff'' ** 4x12 '' Don't Ever Change'' ** 5x20 '' Simple Explanation''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dick, Leonard Living people Upper Canada College alumni Canadian expatriate writers in the United States Canadian male television writers Canadian television writers Screenwriters from Toronto Writers Guild of America Award winners Harvard Business School alumni Year of birth missing (living people)