Erik Oleson
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Erik Oleson | |
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| Occupations | Television writer, producer |
| Years active | 2002 - present |
Erik Oleson is an American television writer and producer. He is best known for being the showrunner and executive producer of the second season of Amazon Prime Video's Carnival Row, and the critically acclaimed third and final season of Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix.
He also served as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the second season of Amazon's original series The Man in the High Castle, which garnered Oleson a USC Scripter Award Nomination in 2017.[1]
Oleson grew up in Clifton, Virginia and is the son of Peter C. Oleson, a former assistant director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Growing up the son of an intelligence official had a profound impact on the types of stories Oleson would go on to write.[2]
Oleson got his first real break at age 13, when James L. Brooks' Broadcast News filmed on location in his Virginia hometown. He snuck onto the set and the crew, taken by his enthusiasm for filmmaking, made him a set mascot. Oleson then went on to work on the production crews of numerous feature films as well as being a working commercials director while attending the film program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, from which he graduated in 1995.[2][3]