Stephen Gyllenhaal

He is also a poet, who has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood, was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York-based literary small press, Cantarabooks.

He directed the TNT television pilot The Warden in 2000 based on Lynda La Plante's series The Governor. It is about a dynamic and ambitious woman named Helen Hewitt (Ally Sheedy) is brought in as the young warden of an all-male maximum security prison (à la Oz). She is brought in to clean up the mess, and the guys in the department (whose egos have been severely dented by her appointment as warden) give her a week to last in the job.

Currently, Gyllenhaal is directing a backdoor pilot for Lifetime titled Sworn to Silence. The pilot stars Neve Campbell as Kate Burkholder, a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community that she was shunned from years ago. Gyllenhaal is also in post-production on a documentary about dream interpretation titled Exquisite Continent. Read Less