Ilene Chaiken
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Ilene Chaiken (born June 30, 1957) is an American television producer, director, writer, and founder of Little Chicken Productions.
Chaiken is best known as being the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the television series The L Word and is currently an executive producer on the hit television series Empire.
Early life and education
Chaiken was born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania to a Jewish family. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with an undergraduate degree in graphic design in 1979.
Personal life
Chaiken has been married to LouAnne Brickhouse, a former executive at Disney, since 2013. They live in the Laurel Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles and have nurtured more than 100 species of birds and other fauna, which they document regularly on an Instagram account.
Chaiken is co-parent to twin daughters Tallulah and Augusta with her former partner, English architect Miggi Hood.
Career
She began her career as an agent for the Creative Artists Agency and as an executive for Aaron Spelling and Quincy Jones Entertainment. She was the deputy producer for Satisfaction and the coordinating producer for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air in 1988. Barb Wire (1996), as well as the television shows Dirty Pictures (2000) and Damaged Care (2002), she wrote. In 2000, Dirty Pictures received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Television Film.
Chaiken co-created The L Word in 2004, largely inspired by her own experiences as a lesbian. Marina Ferrer and Jenny Schecter's first love, which culminated in heartache when the woman revealed she had a long-distance girlfriend, served as a nifty precursor for the characters' friendship.
OurChart, a social networking network for lesbians and their families, was launched in 2007 by she and a group of women in the entertainment and tech industries. OurChart was online before 2008, but it was decommissioned in 2008. A spin-off show of The Farm was in production at the time, and two pilots were being written by Chaiken, but Showtime never purchased the series.
Chaiken produced a documentary for Showtime in 2014. The sin is L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin. Several lesbian women were interviewed in the Deep South, focusing on their experiences of being gay in the Deep South. Chaiken appeared on ABC's The Black Box during this period, but it was later cancelled after one season.
Chaiken is credited with the first establishing of The Handmaid's Tale, a hit Hulu original film. Chaiken left the project early to become the show-runner on Fox's Empire, but he was still listed as an executive producer.
Showtime also announced that it had ordered a full season of The L Word in January 2019. The show titled The L Word: Generation Q on December 8, 2019, and picks up where the original series ended ten years ago, set ten years later.
Little Chicken Productions, her company, has signed a Universal Television exclusive deal. Chaiken co-created the show Law & Order: Organized Crime, a spin-off of the long-running series Law & Order, which premiered in 2020. She served as a writer and showrunner for the series for the first year, but was fired by Barry O'Brien midway through the series's production.