Alan Zweibel

An orig­i­nal Sat­ur­day Night Live writer, Alan Zweibel has won five Emmys and two Writ­ers Guild of Amer­i­ca awards for his work in tele­vi­sion which also includes It’s Gar­ry Shandling’s Show (which he co-cre­at­ed and pro­duced), The David Let­ter­man Show, and Curb Your Enthu­si­asm. A fre­quent guest on all the late night talk shows, Alan’s the­atri­cal con­tri­bu­tions include his col­lab­o­ra­tion with Bil­ly Crys­tal on the Tony Award win­ning play 700 Sun­days, Mar­tin Short’s Broad­way hit Fame Becomes Me, and the off-Broad­way play Bun­ny Bun­ny – Gil­da Rad­ner: A Sort of Roman­tic Com­e­dy which he adapt­ed from his best-sell­ing book. All told, Alan has writ­ten eleven books includ­ing the 2006 Thurber Prize win­ning nov­el The Oth­er Shul­man, the pop­u­lar children’s book Our Tree Named Steve, and A Field Guide To The Jew­ish Peo­ple that he co-wrote
with Dave Bar­ry and Adam Mans­bach. His humor has appeared in such diverse pub­li­ca­tions as The New York­er, Esquire, The Atlantic Month­ly, The New York Times Op-Ed page, The Huff­in­g­ton Post and MAD Mag­a­zine. In 2010, Alan was giv­en an hon­orary PhD from the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York, and because of the diver­si­ty of his body of work in 2013, the Writ­ers Guild of Amer­i­ca pre­sent­ed him with a life­time achieve­ment award. Alan is cur­rent­ly prepar­ing his play Bun­ny Bun­ny for a return to the New York stage, his cul­tur­al mem­oir titled Laugh Lines – My Life Help­ing Fun­ny Peo­ple Be Fun­nier was recent­ly pub­lished by Abrams Books, and a new movie he wrote with Bil­ly Crys­tal called Here Today that stars Crys­tal and Tiffany Had­dish can now be seen via Ama­zon Prime and Apple TV, among oth­er plat­forms. But the pro­duc­tion that Alan is most proud of is the fam­i­ly he co-pro­duced with his wife Robin, their three chil­dren and five grandchildren.