Art Eisenson

Art Eisenson is an American television writer and labor activist. His credits include the series "Kojak", "Eischied" and "The Gangster Chronicles", and mini-series "Beggarman, Thief" adapted from Irwin Shaw's novel. He is an instrumental plaintiff in the TV Writers Age Discrimination Class Action Lawsuits [http://www.writerscase.com] . In 2005, he ran for a position on the board of the Writers Guild of America, and was one of only two candidates not belonging to a political slate.

As a senior at Columbia College of Columbia University, he was president of a briefly revived incarnation of the Philolexian Society. As a graduate student at Stanford University, he was a member of the Stanford Committee for Peace in Vietnam and later Students for a Democratic Society.

He served as a strike captain during the 2007/2008 Writers Guild of America strike.