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“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” writer Danny Strong and Frank Rich will also hand out prizes.

The first presenters for the East Coast ceremony of the Writers Guild Awards have been announced, featuring some of New York’s best-known actors and writers.

Some of the stars handing out awards include The Americans’ Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, Portlandia’s Fred Armisen, House of Cards creator Beau Willimon, Lee Daniels’ The Butler screenwriter Danny Strong, Frank Rich, Orange is the New Black’s Kate Mulgrew, The Good Wife’s Archie Panjabi, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, 30 Rock’s Robert Carlock, Raul Esparza, Terry George and writer Steve O’Donnell.

The screenwriter and director of 2011 Focus Features release Pariah, Dee Rees, will present Focus co-founder and former CEO James Schamus with the Evelyn F. Burkey Award. The Wire and Treme star Wendell Pierce will present the Hunter Award for career achievement to David Simon. And WGAE secretary-treasurer Bob Schneider will present Philip V. Pilato with The Jablow Award for his service to the guild.

The Writers Guild Awards will take place on Feb. 1, with simultaneous ceremonies in New York and L.A. Colin Quinn will host the New York ceremony.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com

Don’t forget to Watch live panel Joe Weisberg,Joel Fields, Keri Russell at 7:20pmE/4:20P

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The Americans

Friday, October 4, 2013
6:30 pm ET
New York

In Person

Joe Weisberg
Joel Fields
Keri Russell
Matthew Rhys
Noah Emmerich
Moderator: Matt Zoller Seitz, TV Critic, NYMag.com

Even in the age of the conflicted hero, FX’s The Americans is impressively bold: the series stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as—get this—a pair of undercover Soviet agents, clandestinely plying their trade while posing as travel agents in suburban Washington, D.C., during the Reagan eighties. Recipient of the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding New Program, The Americans was created by Joe Weisberg—himself a former CIA agent. The series crackles with all the suspense inherent in the genre, but as fellow executive producer/showrunner Joel Fields says, “The Americans is at its core a marriage story; international relations is just an allegory for human relations.” Elizabeth and Philip navigate not only their own marriage—arranged by the KGB—but also relationships with their two young children, based completely on lies since neither of them knows anything about their parents’ true identities. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Philip constantly sneak out in service of the motherland, committing acts so treacherous that we, as viewers, are confronted with “TV’s deepest moral dilemma since The Sopranos,” as the St. Louis Post Dispatch sees it. Complicating matters even further: FBI Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), ostensibly the good guy, who just so happens to be the Jennings’s next-door neighbor, is engaging in questionable behavior of his own—possibly about to get much worse.

Source: http://www.paleycenter.org

GALLERY LINKS:
– Events Austenland Press Conference > August 8 2013

Keri attends Meet The Filmmakers: ‘Austenland’ at the Apple Store Soho on August 13 in New York City.

GALLERY LINKS:
– Events AMeet The Filmmakers: “Austenland” > August 13 2013