Robin Green (producer)

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Robin Green is an executive producer for the HBO series, The Sopranos and has been with the show since its first season. Before that she won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her work on Northern Exposure wrote and produced for such series as A Year in the Life and Almost Grown as well as writing the Showtime movie Critical Choices. She was awarded the 2001 and 2003 Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of The Sopranos, as well 2004 for Outstanding Drama Series. In addition she also has won two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe for that show.

A Rhode Island native, Green earned a BA in American Literature from Brown University, and an MFA at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.

She began her TV writing career later in life, after years in varying endeavors - Rolling Stone journalist, waitress, magazine editor, ditch digger, computer programmer, elevator operator in a meat-packing plant, and Specialist 4th Class, US Army.

Green is married to her The Sopranos co-writer, Mitchell Burgess.