Rick Dunkle

Richard Allan Dunkle is script coordinator, story editor, and writer on Criminal Minds.

Background
Rick Dunkle studied broadcast journalism and theatre at the local school for three years before leaving his hometown of Franklin, Indiana, for Los Angeles where he earned his B.A. in Cinema & Television Production from Columbia College Hollywood in 2002. While studying at CCH, Rick studied television drama writing under then Third Watch executive producer Ed Bernero.

After finishing his first degree, Dunkle started work on his MFA in Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University and began interning at Paramount Pictures in the Domestic Television Research department. His internship led directly to a fulltime job as research analyst at Sony Pictures Television International where he studied viewing trends of audiences worldwide. He was promoted to lead ad/marketing copywriter for SPTI in January of 2005 and transitioned to working off-site when he accepted the position of Script Coordinator on Criminal Minds from former teacher now new boss Ed Bernero.

Dunkle finished his MFA in 2007 and began work that Fall on a PhD in Media Psychology from Fielding Graduate University. He soon began teaching, returning to his alma mater to offer a course in Psychology as it relates to film at Columbia College Hollywood. He began teaching Entertainment & Cross Promotions at Emerson College’s Los Angeles Center in Fall 2008 and sold his first pitch to Criminal Minds in October. He has been the script coordinator on Criminal Minds since the pilot episode and started writting scripts during the fifth season of the series.

Criminal Minds
Episodes written by Rick Dunkle.


 * Conflicted
 * The Slave of Duty
 * Exit Wounds
 * Middle Man
 * Coda