George Lefferts is a writer, producer, playwright, poet, and director of television dramas, motion pictures, radio dramas, and socially conscious documentaries. He is a former columnist for The New York Observer' and twice winner of First Place, the New England Press Association Award for Best Weekly Newspaper Column in America [1983, 1984]. His original plays and films for TV have won six Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. [See details in biography] He was Executive Producer/Writer of the Smithsonian Institution Specials for David Wolper Productions, an Executive Producer for Time Life, NBC, ABC and CBS. and a frequent writer (adaptations of short stories and original scripts) for the science fiction radio programs Dimension X and X Minus One. He wrote and produced the anti-agist film "The Living End," of which Variety wrote "the writing by George Lefferts was so pure it was well nigh perfect." With Alfred Hitchcock and William Shatner he created and wrote "Tactic" the first television program to openly deal with Cancer. He also created, produced and wrote "NBC Specials for Women" a groundbreaking series for Women's Liberation featuring Anthropologist Margaret Mead, which won the Emmy Award [1967] and the Golden Globe Award [1968] [1] [http://otrsite.com/logs/logx10Specialks,
Currently, on March 21, 2011 his original play "The Loneliness of the Armadillo" was presented by the Banyan Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
Lefferts also created the series and served as a scriptwriter for the Frank Sinatra radio drama, Rocky Fortune, in 1953 and 1954 and wrote the NBC documentary "Bravo, Picasso!" featuring Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
In 1975, he was a producer of the Emmy-winning daytime series, Ryan's Hope. He was executive producer/writer of the ABC medical drama, Breaking Point, which aired during the 1963-1964 television season, episodes directed by Sydney Pollack and featuring Robert Redford, John Cassavetes, and Lillian Gish.
He is the co-creator and writer of Family Album, U.S.A. "a soap opera designed to teach English as a Second Language, distributed by MacMillan Publishers in 58 countries.
He has taught screenwriting at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers Universities.