Tom Fontana has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life On The Street, Oz, The Philanthropist, and Canal+'s Borgia. Fontana wrote the HBO film Strip Search, directed by Sidney Lumet, as well as contributed two pieces to the September 11th special America: A Tribute to Heroes. He is currently the showrunner on the Showtime series, City On A Hill. He has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers’ Guild Awards, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Special Edgar and the first prize at Geneva’s Cinema Tout Ecran Festival.

Fontana co-founded Stockings with Care, is President Emeritus of the WGAE Foundation / Writers Guild Initiative, and serves on the boards of the American Theatre Wing, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Acting Company. He’s established unrestricted scholarships at Canisius High School, All Hallows High School, and SUNY College / Buffalo, from which he received a Doctorate in Letters and the Distinguished Alumni Award.