Gwendolyn M. Parker

Gwendolyn M. Parker has had various careers including lawyer, business executive, novelist, screenwriter and producer. As a black, gay woman, Parker often needed to pave her own way. She was the first black female admitted to Kent College and the only black female at a prominent NY law firm. Parker discovered the traditional corporate world was not the right fit for her. “I realized I wasn’t going to be happy unless I had ‘all of me’ through the door. I needed to have my intellect, interests, passions and personality present to be fully integrated.” Parker’s present work as a writer has been her lifelong passion. As a screenwriter and producer she is known for Without a Trace, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Windfall.

Works

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date1999-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count3966

Blue Bloods

A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.

Release Date2010-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count924

CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

Release Date2002-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count1627

Without a Trace

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

Release Date2002-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count263

V

A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.

Release Date2009-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count745

Second Chance

A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists, as a 35-year-old with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.

Release Date2016-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count172

The Handler

The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season. The show starred Joe Pantoliano as Joe Renato, an FBI agent assigned to train and handle young undercover officers in the FBI. Other cast members included Hill Harper, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, and Tanya Wright. Belknap and Harper would reunite as costars on the drama CSI: New York beginning in 2005.

Release Date2003-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

The Big Cigar

Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton enlists an unlikely ally—Hollywood producer Bert Schneider—to elude an FBI manhunt and escape to Cuba.

Release Date2024-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count18

Windfall

Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400,000,000 in a lottery.

Release Date2006-06-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1