Chris Gerolmo is - with Steven Bochco - the creator and executive producer of FX Network's OVER THERE, as well as the head writer on the series.

He also wrote and directed the pilot and wrote, sings, and plays the guitar on the title song.


If you like the title song, find out more about Chris' music on The Album page in this website, or click on this links to download songs or to buy the album I'M YOUR DADDY.

Chris grew up in New York city in a show-business family of theatrical producers, writers and actors. He played a 12 year old James Bond in a national toy commercial, and sang two solos a night in THE KING AND I in Summer Stock.

But it was when he first saw Jimi Hendrix at the age of 13 that he decided that night that he wanted to be an artist.




By the time he was at Harvard, he was a habitual writer.

Then he discovered the film-making program and studied with the great Yugoslav filmmaker, Dusan Makavejev.

A year after he graduated, he was asked to stay and teach the first year filmmaking course there, which he did for 3 years.

At which point, having decided he wanted to be a filmmaker, he thought he'd better write his way into a shot. So he taught himself to write screenplays.

In 1988, his original screenplay MISSISSIPPI BURNING was made, earning 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

Vincent Canby called Chris' "an original American voice."



In 1992, he wrote and directed THE WITNESS, a short for Showtime, which garnered 3 Cable Ace Award nominations, including Best Writing and Best Directing.

In 1995, he wrote and directed CITIZEN X for HBO, which was nominated for 7 Emmys, including Best Writing, Best Directing, and Best Picture, as well as 6 Cable Ace Awards, including Best Writing and Best Directing, and winning Best Picture. Chris also won a Writers Guild Award, and an Edgar Alan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 2001, Chris wrote THE KING INCORPORATED for Steven Soderbergh and Laura Bickford, to which he remains attached to direct.

In 2004, Steven Bochco (Chris has good luck with guys named Steven) asked him to do a series based on the on-going war in Iraq with him. In Chris' words, "When Steven Bochco asks you to write a series for him, you drop everything else you're doing, and say Yes."

Chris lives in Brentwood with his four kids and his beautiful wife, Joan, who's a Co-Producer on the series, OVER THERE.

In his spare time, he made his first album,
I'M YOUR DADDY.

Find out more about it on The Album page on this website.