Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and television producer

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 who has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and won two Writer's Guild of America Awards. Her very first script HBO's "Warm Springs" won the 2005 Emmy Award for Best Television Movie. It also won Nagle the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award

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 for Long Form Original Screenplay. She was also nominated for the 2005 Emmy Award

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 for the same film, which was nominated for Best Writing of a TV Movie for a total of a record-breaking 16 Emmy Awards nominations. The film won 5 Emmys that year including the award. It starred Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon

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, Kenneth Branagh

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, Kathy Bates

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, David Paymer

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, Felicia Day and Tim Blake Nelson

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.

Nagle is currently writing a sequel to Warm Springs for HBO based on Jonathan Alter's book The Defining Moment. It will focus on the Roosevelts marriage during FDR's first run for the presidency at the height of the Depression.

Nagle has been chosen by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to be a member of the very first Imagine/Relliance Writers Lab. An enterprising venture that pools together 9 screenwriters to develop scripts for one year for Universal and Imagine.

Nagle also wrote two episodes for Season One of HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Nagle wrote the scripts "Broadway Limited" and "Anastasia" for the new HBO 2010 series Boardwalk Empire created by Terence Winter

Terence Winter

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 and directed by Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

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. She was a supervising producer on season one ofBoardwalk Empire.

Nagle created the one season Lifetime show Side Order of Life in 2007 which was the second highest rated one hour show on Lifetime. It received positive reviews from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter but was a victim of the writer's strike and Lifetime's poor management decisions.

The Eastmans, a medical show centered around a complicated family of doctors, is a CBS

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 2009 television pilot

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starring Donald Sutherland, Jesse Bradford, Saffron Burrows, Gaby Hoffman and David Wilson Barnes.

Nagle is named for her great aunt the modern dance pioneer MARGARET NEWELL H'DOUBLER, the famed Modern Dance professor who created the first dance major in academia at University of Wisconsin. H'Doubler also coined the phrase "Modern Dance."

Awards/Nominations

• Won Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Show 2011 for Boardwalk Empire.
• Won the Television Academy Honors 2007 award for One hour Series writing/producing for "Side Order of Life"along with Dick Wolf for "Law and Order" and David Kelley for "Boston Legal."
• Won the Writers Guild Award for Best Original Television Movie 2006 for Warm Springs.
• Nominated for the Emmy Award for Best One Hour Series for Television 2011 for BOARDWALK EMPIRE.
• Nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Writing of a Television Movie 2005 for Warm Springs.
• Nominated for the Humanitas Award in 2006 for Warm Springs.
• Nominated for the Pen Award 2006 for Best TV movie for Warm Springs.