Tom Kapinos
- Producer
- Autor
- Additional Crew
Kapinos was born in 1969, raised in Levittown, New York and graduated
from Island Trees High School in 1987. Kapinos then moved from New York
to California in the mid-1990s, working in Los Angeles for Creative
Artists Agency as a script reader, until Fox Studios purchased his
first screenplay The Virgin Mary in 1999 and attached actress Jennifer
Aniston to the title role. The film was never made, due to script
rewrites delaying production past Aniston's availability between
shooting her TV series Friends, but interest in the screenplay reached
the Dawson's Creek producers who offered Kapinos a job later that same
year. After beginning his career in television in 1999 as a
screenwriter and eventually executive producer on drama series Dawson's
Creek, (of which he said his time on the show was like a four year boot
camp, but also "a guilty pleasure for me") Kapinos moved onto his own
series, Californication, a dramedy for which he serves as both
executive producer and chief screenwriter.