She received an M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995.[1][2] Her plays have been produced at venues including Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and La Mama ETC, New York.[2]
She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony, for her work on the first season of Friday Night Lights. She was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series the following year at the February 2008 ceremony, for her work on the second season of Friday Night Lights.[5][6][7] Carpenter was nominated for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for her work on the third season of Friday Night Lights.[8] She was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Drama Series for the third consecutive year at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the fourth season.[9]
She won the 2000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Fall,[10] was awarded a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship,[11] and was awarded the 2003 Kesselring Prize for The Faculty Room.[12][10] In 1997, she received a Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and the Princess Grace Statue Award in 2017. Which is the same year she wrote “Freaky Friday: A New Musical.”[13]
Work
Producer:
"11.22.63" (2016) TV mini-series (executive producer) (8 episodes, 2015-2016)[14]
"The Red Road" (2014) TV series (executive producer) (6 episodes, 2014)
"Parenthood" (2010) TV series (co-executive producer) (7 episodes, 2011-2012)
"Friday Night Lights" (2006) TV series (producer) (21 episodes, 2006-2007) (co-executive producer) (19 episodes, 2009-2011) (supervising producer) (1 episode, 2008) ...AKA "F.N.L." - USA (promotional abbreviation)
"Dead Like Me" (2003) TV series (co-producer) (15 episodes, 2004)
Writer:
"11.22.63" (2016) TV mini-series (8 episodes, 2016)
"The Red Road" (2014) TV series (1 episode, 2014)
"Parenthood" (2010) TV series (9 episodes, 2010-2013)
"Friday Night Lights" (2006) TV series (10 episodes, 2006-2011) ... aka "F.N.L." - USA (promotional abbreviation)
"Bionic Woman" (2007) TV series (1 episode, 2007) ... aka "The Bionic Woman" - USA (complete title)
"Head Cases" (2005) TV series (unknown episodes)
Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005) (TV)
"Dead Like Me" (2003) TV series (5 episodes, 2003-2004)