Biography
Kevin Arkadie was an American television writer and producer. Born on 10 December 1957 in Washington, D.C., he earned a BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University and began his television career as a staff writer on the NBC series I'll Fly Away in the early 1990s.
He co-created the Fox police drama New York Undercover (1994–1999) with Dick Wolf and wrote episodes of series including Law & Order, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, NYPD Blue and The Shield (2002), on which he also served as co-executive producer. He wrote the teleplay for the 1998 miniseries The Temptations and received two Primetime Emmy nominations for producing Chicago Hope and NYPD Blue. Arkadie won a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the 2005 miniseries Miracle's Boys.
He died on 17 December 2025 in Los Angeles, aged 68.
