John Pielmeier

JOHN PIELMEIER began his career with the play and movie Agnes of God. Since then

he has had three more plays mounted on Broadway and over twenty-five film, television

movies and miniseries produced. Most recently he has written and acted in the

internationally successful limited series The Pillars of the Earth (named the 5th Best

Miniseries of All Time!) and is currently prepping his stage adaptation of The Exorcist for

its West End premiere in late autumn 2017. (It recently played in Birmingham England

to glorious reviews and enthusiastic standing ovations.) His first novel, Hook’s Tale, is

being published by Scribner in July 2017. In between he has received the Humanitas

Award (plus two nominations), five Writers’ Guild Award nominations, a Gemini

nomination, an Edgar Award, the Camie Award, a Christopher Award, and his projects

have won a Gemini Award and been nominated for the Emmy Award (three times) and

the Golden Globe Award. He is married to writer Irene O’Garden and makes his home in

upstate New York. If you want to know more, please visit his website:

johnpielmeier.com.