Tom Kapinos Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a script reader for Creative Artists Agency after moving to California from New York in the 1990s
• Got his big break when Fox Studios purchased his screenplay for "The Virgin Mary․"
• Quote: "When you inherit a show that's already on the air you learn a lot, but there's not a great deal of satisfaction in it․"
• Quote: "[on creating future seasons of "Californication"] "You could tell a pretty satisfying story and wouldn't overstay your welcome, necessarily․""
• Quote: "I think every season of television, as far as I'm concerned, should function as a satisfying end if you don’t get that chance to do more․"
• Quote: "I don't have the fear that things are going to get stale because I write to amuse myself․"
• He wrote "Californication" as a feature film before it was turned into a TV series
• Got a job on the staff of "Dawson's Creek" after the show's producers became interested in a failed screenplay he wrote
• His film "The Virgin Mary" was attached to Jennifer Aniston as the lead actress, but the project was never produced after multiple rewrites caused delays in the shooting schedule that Aniston could no longer accommodate during her days at "Friends․"
• Likes to say that his years on the staff of "Dawson's Creek" was a four-year boot camp