Bernadette McNamara is an American television writer

Screenwriter

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 and producer

Television producer

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. She has worked in both capacities on Deadwood

Deadwood (TV series)

Deadwood is an American Western drama television series created, produced and largely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three 12-episode seasons. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before...

and has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for her work on the series.

1990s

McNamara began working in television as an assistant to David Milch

David Milch

David S. Milch is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue and Deadwood.-Biography:...

 for the fifth season of ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 police procedural NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...

in 1997. Milch was a co-creator and executive producer for the series. McNamara made her television writing debut with the sixth season episode "Voir Dire This" in 1999. She wrote the teleplay for the episode from a story by Milch and retired police detective Bill Clark

Bill Clark

Clark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...

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2000s

McNamara was an associate producer and writer for the short-lived Milch created series Big Apple

Big Apple

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in 2001.

McNamara joined the crew of HBO Western drama Deadwood

Deadwood (TV series)

Deadwood is an American Western drama television series created, produced and largely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three 12-episode seasons. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before...

as an associate producer for the first season in 2004. The series was created by Milch and focuses on the growth of a settlement in the American West. She became a staff writer for the second season in 2005. McNamara and the writing staff were also nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award

Writers Guild of America Award

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 for Outstanding Drama Series at the February 2006 ceremony

Writers Guild of America Awards 2005

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 for their work on the second season. She remained a writer for the third and final season in 2006 and scripted the series penultimate episode "The Catbird Seat". The third season writers were again nominated for the WGA Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the February 2007 ceremony

Writers Guild of America Awards 2006

The 59th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film and television writers of 2006.-Best Adapted Screenplay:The Departed - William Monahan...

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Also in 2006 McNamara worked as a writer for the second season of supernatural mystery Medium

Medium (TV series)

Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...

. She co-wrote the story for the episode "Sweet Child O' Mine" with Michael T. Moore

Michael T. Moore

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. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Allison Wonderland" from a story she co-wrote with Moore.