Working in an industry that requires a strong backbone and a tough hide, alumna Carol Flint plays the long shots, but she's made it into the winner's circle too. Over the last two decades, the 1978 New College graduate has regularly written and produced episodes for such acclaimed and successful television shows as China Beach, L.A. Law, ER and The West Wing, all shows for which she received Emmy nominations. She also served as executive producer of the ABC series, Six Degrees, shot on location in New York City.
After sharing in ER's 1996 Emmy win for "Outstanding Drama Series," Flint both wrote and produced the long-running TV drama's 1997 season premiere. The much-publicized episode was broadcast live - a TV genre thought to be extinct.
"No TV drama, except going back to the '50s, had ever done a live show, so it was a huge, huge, huge undertaking," said writer/producer Lydia Woodward, who also worked on the show. "And because Carol wrote the script, she took it on. I think that's one of the most outstanding products of her career. She found a very creative way into the script."
"It was unbelievable," says Flint. "Because we had never done a live show, we had to interface with and depend on technical producers who had done live sports but who had never done drama, including a guy who produced the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta."
