AMC Rubicon TV Series Information

“Rubicon”

Inspired by the suspenseful and high-stakes political whodunits of the 1970s – from The Parallax View to All The Presidents Men – “Rubicon” is a modern-day political conspiracy thriller that taps into the collective paranoia of a post-9/11 era. Executive produced by Henry Bromell (“Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Chicago Hope,” “Brotherhood”) and produced by Warner Horizon Television, “Rubicon” stars James Badge Dale (“The Pacific,” The Departed) and Academy® Award nominee Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). Following its debut, “Rubicon” will move to its regular timeslot, airing Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.

Set in the New York City–based American Policy Institute (API), a federal intelligence agency, “Rubicon” follows Will Travers (Dale), a beleaguered and brilliant API analyst, who, when faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that could point to a complex and sinister conspiracy. Protagonist Will sets off on a compelling search for the truth and grapples with issues of mistrust, power, control and paranoia. With every question he asks, every clue and incriminating fact he uncovers, Will descends further into a complex world of mystery, intrigue and imminent danger.

The “Rubicon” cast also includes Jessica Collins (“The Nine,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) as Maggie Young; Dallas Roberts (Walk the Line, Flicka, “The L Word”) as Miles Fiedler; Christopher Evan Welch (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Grant Test; Lauren Hodges (“Law & Order”) as Tanya MacGaffin; with Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket, Natural Born Killers, The Sandlot) as Kale Ingram. Recurring guest stars are Roger Robinson (Brother to Brother) as Ed Bancroft; and Michael Cristofer (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Shadow Box) as Truxton Spangler.

Created by Jason Horwitch (“The Pentagon Papers,” “Medical Investigation”) and filmed on location in New York City, “Rubicon” is executive produced by Bromell and produced by Kerry Orent (Michael Clayton, “Rescue Me”). Leslie Jacobowitz (“Sex and the City,” “The Wire”) is associate producer, Christopher Goode (Michael Clayton, Duplicity) is UPM and Michael Slovis (“Breaking Bad”) is director of photography. “Rubicon’s” pilot was written and executive produced by Horwitch, directed by Allen Coulter (“The Sopranos,” “Nurse Jackie”) and co-executive produced by Orent. Jonathan Freeman (“Rome,” “Rescue Me”) was director of photography for the pilot. The pilot and series are produced by Warner Horizon Television for AMC.

About AMC
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About Warner Horizon Television
Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) is one of the entertainment industry’s fastest-growing television companies, specializing in the creation of scripted series for the cable marketplace, and primetime reality series for both network and cable. Founded in 2006, this second production entity allows the Warner Bros. Television Group to expand its programming offerings and explore creative options made possible under a new business model. For summer 2010 and the 2010–2011 season, WHTV is producing more than a dozen series. WHTV’s unscripted shows are “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette,” “Bachelor Pad” and “True Beauty” for ABC, “School Pride” for NBC, “High School Reunion” for TV Land and “Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew” for MTV. Scripted programs from WHTV are “Dark Blue,” “Memphis Beat” and “Rizzoli & Isles” for TNT, “Pretty Little Liars” for ABC Family, “Rubicon” for AMC and “Unnatural History” for Cartoon Network.


Cast Credits

James Badge Dale Will Travers
Jessica Collins Maggie Young
Lauren Hodges Tanya MacGaffin
Dallas Roberts Miles Fiedler
Christopher Evan Welch Grant Test
Arliss Howard Kale Ingram
Miranda Richardson Katherine Rhumor


Guest Stars

Roger Robinson Ed Bancroft
Michael Cristofer Truxton Spangler
Peter Gerety David Hadas


Pilot Credits

Henry Bromell Executive Producer
Jason Horwitch Creator/Executive Producer/Writer
Kerry Orent Co-Executive Producer
Christopher Goode UPM
Allen Coulter Director
Jonathan Freeman Director of Photography
Henry Dunn Production Designer
John Pollard Art Director
Jacqueline Jacobson-Scarfo Set Decorator
Juliet Polcsa Costume Designer
Bryan Whisnant Department Head Hairstylist
Francesca Buccellato Department Head Makeup
David Ray Editor
Avy Kauffman Casting Director

Series Production Credits

Henry Bromell Executive Producer/Writer/Director
Kerry Orent Producer
Christopher Goode UPM
Leslie Jacobowitz Associate Producer
Blake Masters Consulting Producer
Michael Slovis Director of Photography/Director
Michael Oates Palmer Writer
Richard Robbins Writer
Nichole Beattie Writer
Zack Whedon Writer
Eliza Clark Writer
Guy Ferland Director
Jeremy Podeswa Director
Nick Gomez Director
Seith Mann Director
Alik Sakarov Director
Ed Bianchi Director
Alan Taylor Director
Keith Gordon Director
Brad Anderson Director
Tim Grimes Production Designer
Toni Barton Art Director
Cherish Hale Set Decorator
Juliet Polcsa Costume Designer
Persefone Karakosta Department Head Makeup Artist
Alexandra Sasha Cummins Department Head Hairstylist
David Ray Editor
Terry Kelly Editor
Thomas Golubic Music Supervisor
Peter Nashel Composer
Mele Nagler Casting Director

Produced by Warner Horizon Television for AMC


Production Biographies


Henry Bromell
Executive Producer/Writer/Director

Henry Bromell has written and produced the television dramas “Northern Exposure,” “I’ll Fly Away,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Chicago Hope,” “Carnivale,” and “Brotherhood,” for which he has received three Peabody Awards, several Humanitas Awards, a Writer’s Guild Award and numerous Emmy® Award nominations.

He is the author of the best-selling novel Little America, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as The Slightest Distance, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. His other books are I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo and The Follower. Bromell’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Rolling Stone, and he has twice won an O. Henry Award. He has also written and directed two feature films: Panic and Last Call.

JASON HORWITCH
Creator/Executive Producer/Writer

Award-winning screenwriter and executive producer Jason Horwitch has earned a reputation for creating energetic, thoughtful and arresting television and feature film drama. “Rubicon” marks Horwitch’s second foray into television drama series creation. The first series he created, “Medical Investigation,” aired on NBC in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, Horwitch received the Writers Guild of America’s prestigious Paul Selvin Award for penning the acclaimed FX television movie “The Pentagon Papers.”

Horwitch’s other credits include Starz’s original film “Joe and Max,” TNT’s “Evel Knievel” and the independent feature Finding Graceland, starring Harvey Keitel. Horwitch also wrote four hours of “Alexander the Great,” an epic miniseries developed at HBO, and followed that by writing “Soulsville,” also for HBO, about the famed soul music label, Stax Records.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Horwitch graduated from U. C. Berkeley and has a Master's degree in English literature.

Kerry Orent
Co-Executive Producer

Kerry Orent produced the Academy Award®-winning film Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney and directed by Tony Gilroy. The film received six Academy Award® nominations, including Motion Picture of the Year, and won an Oscar for Outstanding Supporting Actress (Tilda Swinton). Orent also produced Duplicity, directed by Tony Gilroy and starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.

Orent’s film credits as executive producer include Definitely, Maybe; Kate & Leopold; Rounders; Jonathan Glazer’s Birth; and Fred Schepisi’s It Runs in the Family. Additionally, Orent was a producer on James Gray’s crime thriller The Yards. He co-produced James Mangold’s Cop Land; David O. Russell’s comedy Flirting with Disaster; James Gray’s feature directorial debut Little Odessa; John Duigan’s The Journey of August King; and Phillip Haas’ The Music of Chance.
Since 2002, Orent has served as executive producer on FX’s hit drama “Rescue Me,” starring Denis Leary. In 2005, the show was honored by the Producers Guild of America with a Visionary Award, which acknowledges producers whose work demonstrates a unique or uplifting quality.

Orent’s other television producing credits include the 2001-2002 ABC series “The Job,” starring Denis Leary. Earlier in his career, he served as post-production supervisor on films such as The Pelican Brief, Reversal of Fortune, Peggy Sue Got Married and The Cotton Club.

Christopher Goode
UPM

Christopher Goode served as co-producer on Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Goode also directed the independent feature Dead Dog. Recently, Goode co-produced and 2nd unit directed Michael Clayton, staring George Clooney and directed by Tony Gilroy. The film won an Academy Award® for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Tilda Swinton and received nominations for Best Director (Tony Gilroy), Best Original Screenplay (Tony Gilroy), Outstanding Actor (George Clooney), Outstanding Supporting Actor (Tom Wilkinson) and Outstanding Original Score (James Newton Howard).

Goode's other film credits also include 2nd unit director and production manager on Definitely Maybe; co-producer of Birth and The Yards; and associate producer on Kate and Leopold, Cop Land and Flirting With Disaster. Goode's additional credits include Good Will Hunting, It Runs in the Family, Little Odessa, The Journey of August King, Amateur, State of Grace, Ragtime and Rich Kids.

Goode was nominated for the DGA Award for both Michael Clayton and Good Will Hunting.

He also owned and created the seminal New York City art club AREA. In addition to working in the film industry, Chris Goode also owns a green roof consultant and installation business (Goode Green) serving the hotel and real estate industry in the New York area. To date, the company has created over 100,000 square feet of green roofs. Goode does environmental and LEEDs consulting in conjunction with this business.

Leslie Jacobowitz
Associate Producer

Leslie Jacobowitz has been working in television and film post production management for over ten years. She was post production supervisor on HBO’s "Sex and the City," and then spent five seasons as associate producer on HBO’s "The Wire." Other projects include The Weinstein Company's Nine; FX’s “Damages” (pilot); Fox’s “Canterbury’s Law Pilot;” and Sundance Film Festival films Broken English, Never Forever and Birds of America. She has been a member of the Producers Guild of America since 1999.

BLAKE MASTERS
Consulting Producer

Blake Masters is a screenwriter, director, and television producer. He is the creator and head writer of the critically acclaimed Showtime series “Brotherhood.”  His other credits include writing and developing “Law & Order: Los Angeles” for NBCU; the forthcoming film 2 Guns for producer Marc Platt and Universal; and the film Blueprint for producer John Lesher, which will mark his feature directorial debut.

Michael Slovis
Director of Photography/Director

Michael Slovis started taking pictures as a teenager and was a winner of the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival with a photograph that earned him admission to Rochester Institute of Technology’s renowned art program. He planned to spend his life creating artistic images until one of his teachers said his pictures told stories like movies and advised him to look into filmmaking. Slovis studied cinematography at New York University and began his professional career as a gaffer on motion pictures and television shows. He started his career as a director of photography in independent films in New York. In 1995, Slovis photographed the Sundance Film Festival favorite Party Girl. This was followed by independent films, direct-to-DVD movies, television films, theatrical films and pilots. Returning from Europe, following the traumatic events of 2001, Slovis wanted to stay closer to home and family and was fortunate to transition to episodic television with the series, “Ed” for Paramount/NBC. In 2007, he completed two and a half years as director of photography on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” for which he won the 2006 Emmy® Award for Outstanding Cinematography in a Single-Camera Series. He was nominated again in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, Slovis shot the second and third seasons of the critically acclaimed AMC series “Breaking Bad,” for which he received a third Emmy® nomination. In early 2009, he worked on Fox’s “Fringe” and USA’s “Royal Pains.”

Tim Grimes
Production Designer

Tim Grimes’ previous feature film credits include Stone, directed by John Curran and starring Robert De Niro; The Romantics, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010; Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated film The Wrestler, for which he received a nomination for Excellence in Production Design from the Art Directors Guild; Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005; M. Blash’s Lying, which premiered at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight in 2006; and Deborah Kampmeier’s Houndog, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. Other films include Last Night, directed by Massy Tadjedin; Eric Nazarian’s Blue Hour; Cabin Fever 2 for director Ti West; and Quentin Tarantino Presents Hellride, directed by Larry Bishop.   His extensive art department credits range from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and American Gangster to War of the Worlds and Fantastic Four, as well as indies such as Fur, Igby Goes Down and the HBO series “The Sopranos.”




TONI BARTON
Art Director

Toni Barton has designed various projects for film, television, theatre and industrials. Recently, she art directed the sitcom “Sherri.” Other productions include Sherlock Holmes, The Bounty Hunter, Hitch, Across the Universe, “Today Show” and NBC’s Torino and Beijing Olympics coverage. She was also production designer for the feature 3 Américas, filmed in Boston and Argentina, and several shorts including The Gilded Six Bits and The Second Bakery Attack.

Barton earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California, and a Masters of Fine Arts in scenic design/art direction from New York University. Since 1999, she has been teaching at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Drama.

Cherish Hale
Set Decorator

Cherish Magennis Hale has worked in film and television for well over a decade, on projects ranging from acclaimed feature films to well-recognized television series. She also has a broad array of design, decorating and styling experience in music video, commercial and print work, having decorated and art directed projects with Lenny Kravitz, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Common, Mobb Deep, Garbage and Ryan Adams.
 
Notable decorator positions in film and television include her work on HBO’s Grammy Winning series “Flight of the Conchords;” the 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; Sundance Audience Choice Winner The Wackness; and the recently released The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
 
In 2010, Cherish was nominated for the Excellence in Production Design Award by The Art Directors Guild. 

JULIET POLCSA
Costume Designer

Originally a fashion design major from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Juliet Polcsa has worked in the field of costume design since 1985. She began her career in the New York theatre world, designing many off Broadway productions as well as the Broadway musical Metro. For several years, she worked as an assistant costume designer in film for such noted costume designers as Ann Roth (Sabrina), Hope Hanafin (A Simple Twist of Fate, Unfaithful), Cynthia Flynt (The Good Son, The Preacher’s Wife), Bernie Pollack (Escape) and Susan Lyall (Little Man Tate).

Polcsa’s own work as a film costume designer includes such features as Brooklyn’s Finest, Paper Man, Return to Paradise, Summer Catch, Welcome to Collinwood, Julian Po and Brooklyn Rules. She also designed three films for director Stanley Tucci, including Big Night, The Impostors and Joe Gould’s Secret. For director Kevin Smith Polcsa designed Cop Out and Jersey Girl. On the small screen, she designed for ABC’s TV movie “For One More Day.”

Polcsa is best known for her work in television. As the costume designer on HBO's hit show “The Sopranos,” she designed 82 of the show’s 86 episodes from 1998 to the show’s finale in 2007. Her work on “The Sopranos” garnered her four Emmy® Award nominations and a Costume Designer's Guild Award. Polcsa was also New York Women in Film and Television's (NYWIFT) 2002 Honoree in their annual "Designing Hollywood" event.

David Ray
Editor

David Ray was raised in England and the United States and has forty years experience in the motion picture industry. Ray’s editing credits include Reds, All That Jazz, Scarface and A Bronx Tale. He received an Emmy® Award nomination for the television adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” staring Dustin Hoffman. He has worked with many of America’s finest directors including Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Brian DePalma, Robert Benton, Warren Beatty, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Kevin Bacon, and Paul Haggis, as well as the European directors Volker Schlondorff and Milcho Manchevski.  David Ray lives in New York City.

Terry Kelly
Editor

Terry Kelly has a Master’s Degree in Art (painting) from California Institute of the Arts, and was trained in editing by two Academy Award®-winning editors: Neil Travis (Dances with Wolves) and Thomas Stanford (West Side Story).  He has developed an outstanding, extremely versatile skill set, having edited network television, studio feature films, independent features, documentaries, cable television series and mini-series, commercials, industrials and content for the web (strike.tv).  He is conversant with 35mm film, digital editing with the Avid and Final Cut Pro, and has developed new High Definition workflows for Showtime Networks on the critically acclaimed series, “Brotherhood.” Kelly has edited drama, comedy and action, and has an Emmy® for Contribution in Editing on the HBO movie And the Band Played On.

Peter Nashel
Composer

Peter Nashel is a New York based composer for television, motion pictures and documentaries. From 2007-2009, he scored two television series for ABC, “Life on Mars” and “Dirty, Sexy, Money” as well as composing the theme for Sundance Channel’s “Iconoclasts.” Recently he composed for the Fox drama “Ride Along.”

Nashel’s feature film credits include composing the score for the highly acclaimed The Deep End (starring Tilda Swinton); Bee Season (starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche); New York I Love You (starring Natalie Portman, John Hurt, Robin Wright Penn and Julie Christie); The Night Listener (starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette); and Carriers (starring Chris Pine and Emily VanCamp).

Most recently Nashel composed for two documentaries that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Client 9 – The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (directed by Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney) and Freakonomics (directed by Eugene Jarecki). Nashel’s other documentary credits include the Academy Award® nominated documentary No End In Sight.