Nicole Yorkin is an American television writer and producer. She is the daughter of Bud Yorkin

Bud Yorkin

Bud Yorkin is an American film and television producer, director, writer and actor.Yorkin was born Alan David Yorkin in Washington, Pennsylvania. He earned a degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania...

. In 1997, she shared an Emmy nomination with several producers of Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994, to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.-Premise:The show stars Mandy Patinkin as Dr...

in the category "Outstanding Drama Series". In 2003, she and her partner Dawn Prestwich

Dawn Prestwich

Dawn Prestwich is an American television writer and producer. She attended The Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas. In 1997, she shared an Emmy nomination with several producers of Chicago Hope in the category "Outstanding Drama Series"...

 won a Writers Guild of America

Writers Guild of America

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 award for the pilot episode of the episodic drama The Education of Max Bickford

The Education of Max Bickford

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.

In 2009 Prestwich and Yorkin joined the crew of new ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 science fiction drama FlashForward

Flashforward

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as consulting producers and writers. The series was co-created by David S. Goyer

David S. Goyer

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 and Brannon Braga

Brannon Braga

Brannon Braga is an American television producer and screenwriter, currently working as showrunner and executive producer on Terra Nova...

. The show follows a team of FBI agents investigating a global blackout that gave victims a vision of their future. Prestwich and Yorkin co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Gimme Some Truth" based on a story by Barbara Nance. They also co-wrote the episodes "Believe" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

Credits (selected)

• Melrose Place (1993) - writer
• Judging Amy
  Judging Amy
  Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...
  
  (1999–2001) - writer and co-executive producer
• Carnivàle
  Carnivàle
  Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes...
  
  (2003–2005) - writer and co-executive producer
• Brotherhood (2006) - writer and co-executive producer
• The Riches
  The Riches
  The Riches is an FX television series, which originally ran from March 15, 2007 to April 29, 2008, and starred Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.-History:...
  
  (2007–2008) - writer and co-executive producer
• FlashForward
  Flashforward
  A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...
  
  (2009–2010) - writer and consulting producer

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