Turk Pipkin

Screenwriter, author and actor Turk Pipkin is the NY Times best-selling author of ten works of fiction and non-fiction, director of three award-winning feature documentaries and an actor known for his work in The Sopranos, The Leftovers, Scanner Darkly and The Alamo. His Christmas novel, When Angels Sing, was adapted into the film Angels Sing, starring Harry Connick, Jr., Connie Britton, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Turk also plays a role in the film. A former stand-up comedian who toured with Rodney Dangerfield and many others, Pipkin has written over 100 hours of prime time television. In the third and fifth seasons of HBO's series, "The Sopranos," he played Aaron Arkaway, the born-again, narcoleptic, boyfriend of Tony's sister, Janice. Other television and film appearances include Showtime's Hello, Sucker!, the NBC sitcom, Night Court, Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman, Rick Linklater's Scanner Darkly He is the author of the coming-of-age novel Fast Greens which the N