Tyler Bensinger Explained

Tyler Bensinger
Birth Place:United States
Occupation:Screenwriter, film director
Television writer, producer
Yearsactive:1995 - present

Tyler Bensinger is an American film and television writer, producer and film director.

Career

Bensinger grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Webb School of California. He earned his B.A. as an English Major at Yale before attending UCLA Film School where he received his MFA.[1] He began his career writing features and wrote and directed the film Just Looking. Bensinger moved from features to TV in the late nineties and has written on numerous shows including The Cape (1996),[2] The Pretender, Beverly Hills 90210, Titans, Going to California, Dragnet, Cold Case, Justice, Viva Laughlin, Harper's Island, Parenthood, Prime Suspect, Masters of Sex, Nashville, The Good Wife, Notorious and This Is Us.[3] He has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award (Masters of Sex)[4] and an Emmy Award (This Is Us).[5]

Bensinger is also a photographer. His monograph There and Away won first place in the International Photography Awards/Lucie Foundation competition in 2018.[6] Bensinger's photographs have been featured twice in Lens' Magazine (issues 69 and 83).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rice . Jessica . 22 1/2 Minutes With Television Writer Tyler Bensinger Class of '80 . The Webb Schools of California . 31 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Episode 17-The Last to Know. YouTube.
  3. News: O'Neill . Tyler . How 'This Is Us' Got Made . 31 July 2020 . www.backstage.com . 28 April 2020 . en.
  4. News: WGA Awards 2014: Complete list of winners and nominees . 31 July 2020 . LA Times . January 30, 2014.
  5. Web site: Tyler Bensinger Awards and Nominations . Emmys . 31 July 2020.
  6. Web site: There and Away . International Photography Awards . 31 July 2019.