Biographie
Turk Pipkin is a screenwriter, author, and actor, recognized as a New York Times best-selling writer of ten fiction and non-fiction books. He has directed three award-winning feature documentaries and is known for acting roles in The Sopranos, The Leftovers, Scanner Darkly, and The Alamo. His Christmas novel, When Angels Sing, was adapted into the film Angels Sing, featuring Harry Connick Jr., Connie Britton, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson, with Pipkin also appearing in the movie. A former stand-up comedian who toured with Rodney Dangerfield and others, Pipkin has written over 100 hours of prime-time television. In HBO’s The Sopranos, he portrayed Aaron Arkaway, the born-again, narcoleptic boyfriend of Tony’s sister Janice, during the third and fifth seasons. His other TV and film credits include Showtime’s Hello, Sucker!, NBC’s Night Court, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, and Richard Linklater’s Scanner Darkly.
Pipkin is also the author of the coming-of-age novel Fast Greens, praised by The New York Times Book Review for its vivid sense of time and place. Published in multiple editions domestically and internationally, Fast Greens was optioned and developed by Warner Bros., though it was never produced. In 2005, he co-founded The Nobelity Project, a nonprofit organization collaborating with Nobel Laureates and other leaders on a trilogy of feature documentaries—Nobelity, One Peace at a Time, and Building Hope—that address global challenges and solutions. Pipkin wrote and directed all three films, which were shot across 27 countries on five continents. The Nobelity Project’s films and outreach efforts have raised over a million dollars, funding classrooms, clean water initiatives, libraries, and science labs in Kenya and Honduras, as well as education and healthcare projects in Nepal, Mexico, and the United States.
