He also served as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the second season of Amazon's original series The Man in the High Castle, which garnered Oleson a USC Scripter Award Nomination in 2017.[1]
Early life
Oleson grew up in Clifton, Virginia and is the son of Peter C. Oleson, a former assistant director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Growing up the son of an intelligence official had a profound impact on the types of stories Oleson would go on to write.[2]
Oleson got his first real break at age 13, when James L. Brooks' Broadcast News filmed on location in his Virginia hometown. He snuck onto the set and the crew, taken by his enthusiasm for filmmaking, made him a set mascot. Oleson then went on to work on the production crews of numerous feature films as well as being a working commercials director while attending the film program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, from which he graduated in 1995.[2][3]
In October 2017, it was reported that Oleson would serve as the showrunner for season 3 of Daredevil.[6] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 97% approval rating based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10.[7]
Oleson was working on the show's fourth season before its abrupt cancellation.[8]
Carnival Row
In October 2019, it was announced that Oleson would be stepping in as showrunner and executive producer of the second season of Carnival Row, set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video February 17, 2023.[9][10]
CrimeThink
In March 2022, Deadline Hollywood announced that Oleson launched his own production company, CrimeThink, with executive Paul Shapiro serving as Head of Content for the company.[11][2]