David Mirkin
David Mirkin ( born September 18, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He was involved as a writer, among other things on the sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show and Three's Company, before he took over the function of the executive producers on the animated series The Simpsons from 1993. Later he worked as showrunner in the production team, but continued to write individual episodes and was also in The Simpsons - The film involved. Since 2013 he is the series in an advisory capacity.
Mirkin 's Peabody Award and five -time Emmy Award -winner. He is also a director of Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves! and Romy and Michele.
Career
Youth
David Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia, where he attended high school. Like his father and brother he wanted to study engineering and then attended Drexel University, this left but not finish, because he found the work to be too monotonous. Already in childhood showed Mirkin interest in the movies, so he enrolled at the Film School, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and in 1978 received his degree.
Beginnings in the film business
Mirkin began his career in 1982 as a stand- up comedian, where he has performed all over the country. In 1983 he came to his first job in show business. About his cousin he met George Tricker know who worked on The Ropers, a sitcom, which was a spin-off of Three's Company ( in the original English Three's Company). Mirkin wrote a screenplay for The Ropers, which was rejected by the producers of the series, but also by Bernie West, the author of Three's Company, was read. Mirkin liked this style, so he worked for three years on the show and brought ideas, although the producers at this time bought a single screenplay by him. However Mirkin was grateful for the opportunity because it enabled him to gain a foothold in the business.
Mirkin's goal was to write for the sitcom Cheers, and he acquired the ability to write a screenplay on probation for one of the last episodes of the first season. However, his agent rejected the job off without his knowledge, then Mirkin dismissed this. Then About his new agent, he received a permanent job as a scriptwriter of comedy series Newhart. After one and a half years as an author, he also assumed the position of executive producers and show runners of the series and also directed some episodes of itself After the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a received Comedy Series in 1987, he left the production team in 1988.
1990 designed and produced with Mirkin Get a Life his own show ( with Chris Elliott ). As executive producer, he was responsible for the entire production and turned the most episodes themselves after two seasons Get a Life was deposed in 1992. It was followed by a collaboration with Julie Brown, from the 1992 sketch show The Edge emerged. As early as 1993 he left the production team again.
The Simpsons
Directly after he had left The Edge contacted him the executive producer of The Simpsons, James L. Brooks. After following the fourth season, a large part of the original production team left the show, it was Mirkin to launch a substantial redesign. He took over the post of executive producers and show runners and committed other Mike Scully and David X. Cohen for the production team. Through his work, he coined a " Mirkin era " in the series, which enjoys special popularity among fans. By 1995, he was Executive Producer, but then he had continued large proportion of the production process. Deep Space Homer is the only one of Mirkin completely self-written episode and is to this day in various top ten lists of the best episodes. To date, Mirkin is the series in an advisory capacity and was also involved in The Simpsons - The film involved. For his work around the series Mirkin received four Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.
Originated in his work as a director so far Heartbreakers - Warning: Sharp curves! and Romy and Michele. 2012 Mirkin was commissioned screenplay and directed the film version of Richard Branson's Losing My Virginity memoirs.