Turk Pipkin
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
![A film about a messed up worldÂ… and how we could fix it.
Sprinkled with music from Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson and Willie Nelson, One Peace at a Time lyrically weaves a tapestry through 20 countries and is as magical as it is informative.
Activist Turk Pipkin (The Sopranos, Nobelity) continues his global journey of knowledge in action with a goal to create a virtual roadmap to a better future by focusing on specific solutions in these troubled times.
Join Pipkin as he chronicles the model Indian orphanages of The Miracle Foundation, family planning initiatives with ThailandÂ’s Mechai Viravaidya, Ethiopian water projects with A Glimmer of Hope, and Architecture for HumanityÂ’s global design challenge for communities in need in the Himalayas, the Amazon and the slums of Nairobi.
Be part of the solution – One Peace at a Time.
With the insights of Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize), Steve Chu (Nobel Prize in Physics and President ObamaÂ’s Secretary of Energy) & Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize) with Helene Gayle (CEO of CARE, International) & special appearance by American legend Willie Nelson.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2NTczNzkwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODI5MzAwMw@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
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 New York Times Book Review said was "Endowed with a vivid sense of time and place." Published in numerous editions in this country and abroad, "Fast Greens" was optioned and developed by Warner Bros. but never produced.
In 2005, Pipkin co-founded the non-profit organization The Nobelity Project working with Nobel Laureates and other leaders on a trilogy of feature docs (Nobelity, One Peace at a Time and Building Hope) about global problems and solution. Pipkin wrote and directed all three films which he shot in 27 countries and 5 continents. The Nobelity Project films and other outreach have raised over a million dollars in proceeds which have built classrooms, clean water projects, libraries and science labs in Kenya and Honduras, as well as education and health care projects in Nepal, Mexico and the U.S.