Michael Poryes
Michael Poryes ( born March 22, 1955 in Los Angeles ) is an American screenwriter, executive producer and playwright. He is considered the inventor of That's So Raven and Hannah Montana.
Life and career
Even before boarding Poryes into the film and television business, he earned his living as a waiter. His actual career in television eventually began in the early 1980s when he was employed as a writer in a series of, among other internationally known television series. So he was up slightly in 1986 in which only one or two episodes of series such as Love, Sidney ( 1982, 1 episode), The Jeffersons ( 1983, 1 episode), snack with bite ( 1984, 1 episode), Love Boat (1985; 1 episode), A Fall Guy ( 1985, 1 episode) or Who 's the Boss? (1985 and 1986; 2 episodes) as a screenwriter in use and came up with in 1986 on his first major work. He took over the work of the Dramaturgs the television series The Facts of Life, in which he played until 1988 at this position in 48 episodes and was also until 1988 as a screenwriter in use in five episodes. Still in 1986, he wrote the screenplay for an episode of Small Wonder. After working in the NBC series Poryes was in the following years as a screenwriter in use. Here he worked on series such as Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1989, 3 episodes), California High School ( 1989 and 1990; 3 episodes), 227 (1990; 1 episode), Harry and the Hendersons (1991; 1 episode) My father is an alien ( 1991, 1 episode), My Dear John (1992, 1 episode) and Roseanne (1992; 1 episode). A sometimes quite substantial work he performed in the production of The Mad Royals, where an episode he wrote the screenplay in 1992, worked as an executive script consultant in two episodes and was used in a further four episodes as a dramaturge. In the same year he was nominated for the Roseanne episode This Old House along with Chuck Lorre and Jeff Abugov for the Humanitas Prize, which one though but did not win in the end.
Subsequently other short assignments as a screenwriter with known part television series from American production. 1993 was followed by two episodes of Joe 's Life, in which Poryes as a screenwriter was active, followed by an episode of Me and the Boys in 1994. Only a year later Poryes was in another episode of Me and the Boys as a co-producer in use, its first essential activity in the production of a television series. Then after a rather unspectacular 1996 was followed by a more labor intensive in 1997, participated in the same Poryes in various television productions. So he wrote among other things the script for three episodes of Cybill and was in the series, among others, in five episodes as supervising producer active and up to 1998 in eight episodes also as co-executive producer in use. Furthermore, a commitment to The Blues Brothers Animated Series, where he wrote the screenplay for an unknown number of episodes followed in 1997. In addition, he was also active with an unknown number of episodes as executive producer of the television series Veronica this year. After a long break Poryes created the youth television series Raven looks through that quickly became a true success and when he mustered the concept in almost all episodes. He also accompanied the series over two years long in 20 episodes as executive producer and worked as a consultant in a further 18 episodes.
On the success of Raven then invented Poryes soon afterwards become rapidly popular children's and youth series Hannah Montana. In the produced 2006-2010 series, he was responsible for the concept in 90 of the 100 episodes and was also in 84 episodes as executive producer in use. He had in 2009 when Hannah Montana This activity - the film for which he brought through the series and the characters hold. Previously, he was already in the DVD production Hannah Montana: One engaged in a Million (2008) and was also in the same year as a screenwriter and short story writer in the DVD production Come Feud with Me: The Top 10 Disney Channel Character Feuds in use. The year before he returned to 17 episodes of Cory in the figures. For his commitment to Hannah Montana Poryes was consecutively nominated four times (2007-2010) for the Creative Arts Emmy, but could not accept the award and was beaten every year against other productions. The production of the series ended in 2010, with the last episode was aired in the U.S. on 16 January 2011. According to media reports Poryes is already at the development of a new youth television series.
Filmography
Screenwriter
Producer
Co-producer
Co-executive producer
Supervising producer
Executive producer
Dramatic advisor
Dramaturg
Consultant