Tom Fontana has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, The Philanthropist, Copper and Netflix's Borgia. Most recently, he was the show runner on the new Showtime series, City on a Hill. Fontana has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers' Guild Awards, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Special Edgar Award and the first prize at the Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva (Ex GIFF). Fontana co-founded the non-profit charity Stockings with Care. He sits on the Board of the Writers Guild Initiative, the NYPD Police Museum, the Creative Coalition, the Acting Company, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the International Council of the Paley Media Center.