Williamstown Theatre Festival, and McCarter Theatre Company. Personal life Fontana's sister is a nun. He lives in New York City's West Village in a building that was formerly a branch of the New York Public Library. The book-lined, two-story main reading room is now a living room where he often hosts fund raisers for arts and civil-rights organizations. Fontana was married to actress Sagan Lewis for 12 years until their divorce in 1993. Sagan and Fontana remarried on July 10, 2015, and remained together until her death on August 7, 2016. Fontana has a tattoo of the Oz logo on his upper right arm, which he is shown receiving in the opening credits of the series. Fontana does not own or use a computer, and writes all of his scripts longhand on a yellow legal pad. Membership He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Producers Guild of America, and the Writers Guild of America, East, from which he received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award for lifetime achievement. Fontana served as vice president of the Writers Guild of America, East from 2005 to 2007. He is president emeritus of the WGAE Foundation, commonly known as the Writers Guild Initiative, and serves on the boards of the Acting Company, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, DEAL, the New York City Police Museum, and Stockings With Care, among others. Detective Joe Fontana, Dennis Farina's character on Law & Order, was named for Tom Fontana, who became close friends with Law & Order creator Dick Wolf while working as writers in the same building, at the same time, on the series St. Elsewhere (Fontana) and Hill Street Blues (Wolf). Filmography Film Television References External links Official Website New York Magazine Tom Fontana profile and The Jury preview Board of Advisors, The Buffalo Film Festival, Buffalo, NY, United States Tom Fontana interview at Archive of American Television Tom Fontana’s ‘Borgia’ at the Hollywood Reporter Deauville 2011: Tom Fontana Discusses 'Borgia's' Move to Netflix, Plans for Cable (Q&A) at the Hollywood Reporter American television writers American male television writers 1951 births Buffalo State College alumni Edgar Award winners American writers of Italian descent Living people Writers from Buffalo, New York Showrunners Screenwriters from New York (state)