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name: "Dominic Orlando"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dominic-orlando"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 December 1963"
died: "17 November 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:42:50.999956+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dominic Orlando

Writer. Born 25 December 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 17 November 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 December 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Died:** 17 November 2021
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117861565, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5505530/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2273625

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*MINDHUNTER*](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md) (83)

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## Biography

Dominic Orlando was a writer and playwright. He began his career in New York theatre, co-founding the No Pants Theater Company in 1992. He later received Jerome and McKnight fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, where he co-founded the Workhaus Collective before moving to Los Angeles to work in television.

Orlando wrote for several series, including ten episodes of *The OA* (2016–2019) as writer and story editor, the teleplay for one episode of *Mindhunter* (2017), and three episodes of *Them* (2021). He also served as a producer on *Nightflyers* (2018) and worked as writer and producer on *Outer Range* (2022). He received two Writers Guild of America Award nominations.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *MINDHUNTER* (2017), Fi1m 83, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Outer Range* (2022), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Them* (2021), series, Writer
- *MINDHUNTER* (2017), series, Teleplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md)
- *The OA* (2016), series, Writer, Story Editor

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