Rick Cleveland
 Rick Cleveland is an American television writer playwright and monologist best known for writing on the HBO original series Six Feet Under and NBC's The West Wing.Cleveland a graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa is also a founding member of Chicago's American Blues Theater.In 2000 Cleveland and The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin won the Emmy Award for Best Writing for a Drama Series their episode In Excelsis Deo.