Seven and a Match back in 2001. Despite the success of the film, years of false starts and development hell plagued his career thereafter.
He finally broke free in 2015 with a transition to television, writing for the series The Astronaut Wives Club. Work on the queer history miniseries When We Rise followed, as did a little movie titled Call Me By Your Name on which Simonds served as producer (more on that in a minute).In addition to the 2017 success of Call Me By Your Name, Simonds also came into his own as a showrunner that same year with The Sinner.
Based on the novel by Petra Hammesfahr, the series followed detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) as he tried to understand what drove a woman to murder.