Dan Cohen
After realizing that professional acting was not going to be his pathfinding out you have a 35-cent balance at Bank of America has a way of doing that - Mr. Cohen segued into the entertainment industry. Dan worked as an executive in TV research at 20th Century Fox, but aspiring to more creative endeavors, he re-segued into Current Programming at ABC Entertainment. While there, he ascended to Program Planning, and ultimately Comedy Development, where he discovered writing comedy was his true passion. Mr. Cohen then re-re-segued to become a professional TV writer. He has been a writer/producer on fourteen prime-time broadcast network and cable comedy series, including “Frasier”, “Ellen”, “Less Than Perfect”, and as Executive Producer/Showrunner for “Sullivan & Son on TBS. Currently, Dan is creating/developing prime-time programming.
- Bachelor Degree - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1983
Comedy television writing/development from the point of view of an executive producer/showrunner, a television executive - current and development.
Member of Emmy award-winning writing staff of Frasier in 1992.
