Anthony E. Zuiker

As the creator and executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the highest-rated dramas in television history, Anthony E. Zuiker is tuned-in to America's steep consumer expectations. Not only did Zuiker develop a blockbuster television series; he built an entertainment empire that transformed television programming and advertising. A world-wide phenomenon, the CSI franchise ...

David Simon

David Simon, 49, is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. Born in Washington, he came to Baltimore in 1983 to work as a crime reporter at The Baltimore Sun. While at the paper, he reported and wrote two works of narrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the former an account of a...

David Steinberg

Emmy award winning director, writer, producer, actor and comedian David Steinberg has been called "a cross between Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce" by The New York Times and "a credit to his people, actually to all people" by Robin Williams. He has worked in movies and television and on Broadway, and has launched the careers of many successful comedians. Now in his fifth decade as a major...

Dustin Lance Black

Dustin Lance Black is a screenwriter, producer and director, having won the 2009 Academy Award® and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for MILK, the Gus Van Sant-directed biopic of the late gay rights activist Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn. An honors graduate of UCLA’s School of Film and Television, Black began his professional career as an art director...

Jeff Zaslow

Jeffrey Zaslow is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and in 2009/2010 was the author or coauthor of three bestselling books. The Last Lecture, written with Randy Pausch, has been translated into 46 languages, and was #1 on best-seller lists worldwide. There are 5 million copies in print in English alone, and the book has remained on The New York Times best-seller list for more than 100...

John Patrick Shanley

An accomplished and award-winning writer and director, John Patrick Shanley has written extensively for film and the stage. His play Doubt, which opened off-Broadway in 2004, became the first of his plays to transfer to Broadway and then to the screen. The screen adaptation of Doubt, written and directed by Shanley, has earned him 2009 Academy Award and Writers Guild Award nominations for best...

Joss Whedon

Emmy and Oscar nominee Joss Whedon is one of Hollywood's top creators, scripting several hit films and creating one of television's most critically praised shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Born in New York June 23, 1964, Whedon is a third-generation television writer. His grandfather and father were both successful sitcom writers on shows such as The Donna Reed Show, Leave It to Beaver and...

Kirk Ellis

Award-winning writer/producer Kirk Ellis won two Emmys and the Humanitas Prize for his work on John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. Ellis wrote and co-executive produced the seven-part HBO miniseries, which is based on David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. The miniseries scored a record 23 nominations; second only to Roots in Emmy history and won a record breaking...

Lawrence O'Donnell

Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. is an Emmy winning Executive Producer of NBC’s The West Wing. The West Wing episode he co-wrote on the death penalty won the 2000 Humanitas Prize for writing that “communicate(s) those values which most enrich the human person.” Mr. O’Donnell was also the creator and Executive Producer of Mister Sterling, NBC’s Washington-based drama set in the U.S. Senate...

Lynn Nottage

2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Lynn Nottage, is a playwright and the author of Ruined, which is now playing at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The play is set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo and follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. In addition to Ruined, Nottage is also the author of...

Matthew Weiner

Matthew Weiner is the creator and executive producer of Mad Men, an AMC original series, now in its fourth season. Since its debut, the series has garnered three consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series; three Golden Globe® Awards for Best Television Drama Series; a Peabody Award; a Producers Guild Award; two Writers Guild Awards; AFI Awards for one of the Top 10 Outstanding...

Paul Haggis

Paul Haggis is the award-winning filmmaker who, in 2006, became the first screenwriter to write two Best Film Oscar winners back-to-back – Million Dollar Baby (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, and Crash (2005) which he himself directed. For Crash, he won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The film also received an additional four nominations including one for...

Phil Rosenthal

In conjunction with the release of his book You’re Lucky You’re Funny, Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer Phil Rosenthal and his writing team take audiences behind the scenes of one of the most beloved sitcoms in TV history. Along the way they describe in detail how the shows were written and characters developed, screen video clips of their home lives, and reveal how those real-life...

Rick Cleveland

Rick Cleveland was a writer and Executive Producer for all five seasons of HBO's award-winning Six Feet Under. In 2000, he won an Emmy Award, a Writer's Guild Award, and The Humanitas Prize for his writing on The West Wing. He was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his screen adaptation of John Grisham's Runaway Jury. His play Jerry and Tom was adapted as a...

Rick Reilly

RICK REILLY, 50, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year 11 times. He is the new back-page columnist for ESPN The Magazine, and a featured columnist for ESPN.com, as well an essayist for ESPN SportsCenter and ABC Sports...

Spike Feresten

Spike Feresten was raised in West Bridgewater, MA, where he attended public school and got his first job as a bag boy at the local supermarket. With a dream to be the next Jimi Hendrix, Feresten attended Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Steve Bodow

Steve Bodow is Head Writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the acclaimed Comedy Central news parody. Since joining TDS in 2002, Steve has won four Emmys, two Television Critics Awards, and a Peabody. He was also a writer for the Daily Show's #1 best-selling America: The Book. As a journalist, Steve has written both humor and "straight" pieces on politics, media, business and culture...

Terence Winter

Terence Winter is a four-time Emmy winning writer, Executive Producer and director of The Sopranos, having written 23 episodes of the acclaimed series including the classics “Pine Barrens”, “Long Term Parking”, and “Members Only”. In addition to his work in television, he has written the films Get Rich or Die Tryin’ starring 50 Cent and Brooklyn Rules, starring Alec Baldwin. He is currently...

Zach Braff

Zach Braff stars as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian in NBC's hit comedy Scrubs. For his portrayal of the quirky doctor Braff was nominated for a 2005 Emmy Award and received three consecutive Golden Globe nominations in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Aside from acting Braff has distinguished himself from his peers as a writer and director. With his feature writing and directorial debut, GardenState...