The Patient

Joel Fields is a writer and executive producer whose work on FX’s critically acclaimed series The Americans earned him an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and two WGA Awards for Best Dramatic Series. The Americans has also been honored with a Golden Globe® Award, two Critics’ Choice Awards, two Peabody Awards and numerous AFI Awards, TCA Awards and Emmy nominations. Fields also wrote and executive produced FX’s limited series Fosse/Verdon, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series. Fosse/Verdon earned an AFI Award for TV Program of the Year, as well as Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations for Best Limited Series, a PGA nomination for Outstanding Producer of a Limited Series and a WGA Award for Long Form Adapted Series. Currently, Fields is executive producing the FX series Kindred.Fields lives in New York with his wife, Jessica, and their two children.

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A writer and executive producer whose work on FX’s critically acclaimed series The Americans earned him an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

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Joel Fields | Executive Producer | The Patient on FX

The Patient

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