Rick Cleveland is a playwright, monologist and Emmy-winning television writer whose work includes, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, and Nurse Jackie as well as the upcoming Netflix original series House Of Cards directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey.  He won a Best Solo Performance Award at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival in 2006 for his one-man show My Buddy Bill, which was subsequently filmed for an hour-long Comedy Central Special at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 2007.  Rick has also written a screenplay Frankenstein Like Me for Will Ferrell and Sony Pictures, and he earned his MFA from the University of Iowa.