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name: "Scott Brown"
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roles: ["Writer"]
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:13:20.623069+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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# Scott Brown

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83854804, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4447552/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2788571

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Sharp Objects*](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md) (84)

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## Biography

Scott Brown is an American screenwriter, author, journalist and critic. He grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and attended Harvard University. He began his career in journalism at Entertainment Weekly and later served as chief theatre critic for New York magazine from 2010 to 2014, winning the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism in 2013.

His television credits include writing for the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), the series Manhattan (2014–2015) and Castle Rock (2018–2019), and serving as a consulting producer on Utopia (2020). He received a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Original for his work on Castle Rock. Brown has also written for the stage, co-authoring the musical Gutenberg! The Musical! with Anthony King.

He is the author of the young adult novel XL (2019).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sharp Objects* (2018), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Utopia* (2020), series, Consulting Producer
- *Castle Rock* (2018), series, Writer
- *Sharp Objects* (2018), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md)
- *Manhattan* (2014), series, Writer, Staff Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical 2019: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (nominated), for *Beetlejuice*
- George Jean Nathan Award 2012: George Jean Nathan Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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