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"The 20/20 Series" is a pop-up event that takes us into the homes, hubs, and workspaces of an array of dynamic creative visionaries to allow for relaxed, engaging conversations on craft, creation, and artistic vision.

Each conversation with a creative visionary features 20 minutes of discussion with a moderator and a 20 minute Q&A from YOU, the audience.

This event is open to the public, as a means of promoting global connection and creativity, a key mission of NYFA.

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Andy Wolk’s film writing and directing career began with the much-lauded HBO movie Criminal Justice that made Time Magazine’s “Ten Best” List. Starring Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia, and Rosie Perez, Criminal Justice received the Silver Prize at FIPA in Cannes and was named Best Cable Movie of the year. Whitaker, LaPaglia, and Perez were all nominated for acting awards and Mr. Wolk was nominated for the Writer’s Guide Award. He received the Writer’s Guide Award for writing Natica Jackson on PBS which starred Michelle Pfeiffer.

He has been nominated for the Director’s Guild Award twice and also the Cablefax Award as Best Director. He has directed numerous episodes of shows such as The Sopranos, Damages (for which Glenn Close won an Emmy Award), and The Practice including the “Final Judgement” episode for which Alfre Woodard received the Emmy Award and Mr. Wolk received the Humanitas Award.

He has also been writer and director on many legal-themed movies including Deliberate Intent, the critically praised 1st movie ever for FX. Starring Timothy Hutton, the LA Times called it “taut, smart, provocative, well-acted and suspensefully directed.” Mr. Wolk has also directed and written the acclaimed Fighting The Odds for Lifetime, The Defenders: Payback, Choice of Evils, and Taking The First, three highly-rated movies for Paramount and Showtime starring Beau Bridges, Martha Plimpton, and E.G. Marshall and based on the classic 60s show.

His extensive work in episodic includes directing the acclaimed Ugly Betty episode that featured the coming-out kiss between two 15-year-old boys. He also directed the pilot of the long-running HBO comedy hit Arliss. Other shows directed include most recently Bluff City Law, Station 19, Manifest, and Seal Team. Also, Girlfriends Guide to Divorce, Shadowhunters, Defiance, Unforgettable, Rizzoli and Isles, Criminal Minds, In Plain Sight, Gossip Girl, The Carrie Diaries, Chasing Life, Necessary Roughness, Hart of Dixie, Numbers, Without A Trace, Witches of East End, The Client List, Fairly Legal, NYPD Blue, Medium, Hellcats, Hawthorne, Trust Me, Day Break, Heist, Close to Home, and Tales from the Crypt.

He directed 4 hit CBS movies: When Angels Come to Town starring Peter Falk and Katey Sagal; Finding John Christmas starring Peter Falk and Valerie Bertinelli; The Christmas Shoes starring Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams; and A Town Without Christmas which was the highest-rated movie on television and featured Patricia Heaton and Peter Falk. Other movies he has directed include A Stranger’s Heart, Pizza My Heart, Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll, Alibi, All Lies End in Murder, and Kiss and Tell along with his first feature, Traces of Red for the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Mr. Wolk’s other writing credits include HBO’s Emmy-winning From the Earth to the Moon, produced by Tom Hanks, and the award-winning Tales from the Crypt starring Demi Moore. He has written and re-written features for Miramax, Paramount, Tri-Star, UA, MGM, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and AVCO Embassy plus pilots for Fox, ABC, and Showtime.

His career started in the theater. He most recently directed workshops of Timon of Athens and The Tempest at CSC Theater in NYC and Antaeus Theatre in LA. He directed Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale, each of which had successful Off-Broadway runs under the auspices of Lincoln Center and he has directed plays at Manhattan Theatre Club (where he worked on staff for five years) along with many other theaters.

Mr. Wolk has been on the faculty of the American Film Institute and a Creative Advisor and Artistic Director for the Sundance Institute’s Labs and has also taught screenwriting at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has an MFA from the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University where he was awarded the Heinz Scholarship and a Shubert Fellowship. His BA is from the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded the Thouron Scholarship.