Michael Schur
Michael Schur ( born October 29, 1975 in West Hartford, Connecticut as Michael Herbert Schur ) is an American screenwriter, television producer, television director and actor, known for his work on the three NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live, The Office and Parks and Recreation.
Life and career
Michael Schur was born in October 1975, the son of Anne Herbert and Warren M. Schur in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. According to his own statement, the comedy genre interested him the age of eleven, when he Without guidance no Freud, a collection of short stories from 1975 read Woody Allen. He attended Hall High School in Connecticut and graduated in 1997 from Harvard University, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and also editor of the Harvard Lampoon magazine. Shortly after graduation, he was hired by NBC for comedy series Saturday Night Live as a screenwriter. He worked there until 2004 and wrote in this period 139 episodes and acts the way from 2002 to 2004 as a producer. For his work on the series in 2002, he could win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program and was also nominated for another Emmy Awards and three Writers Guild of America Awards for two. In 2005, he joined as co-producer on HBO The Comeback, which, however, was canceled after one season. A short time later he came back to NBC, who had him committed for his new comedy series The Office, an adaptation of the British series The Office. There he worked until 2008 as a producer and as a scriptwriter, for which he won an Emmy Award and two Writers Guild of America Awards. In the series, he had by 2011 nine guest appearances as Dwight Schrutes ( Rainn Wilson) cousin Mose. In 2006 he also wrote together with Paul Lieberstein every ten screenplays for web series The Office: The Accountants, for which they both have a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program - Comedy won. A year later he then had a guest appearance on the Fox Youth series The OC.
In April 2008, Greg Daniels and Schur began to develop a spin-off to The Office. However, after several months of deliberation, she came to the conclusion, rather instead of doing a spin-off but a stand-alone series. So conceived, the two series Parks and Recreation, which really should be called Public Service, which started at NBC in April 2009. The two act there as a producer, executive producer and occasionally as a television directors. In the spring of 2013, Schur conceived with Daniel Goor comedy series Brooklyn Nine -Nine, which had at Fox premiere on 17 September 2013.
In October 2005, he married the screenwriter JJ Philbin, with whom he has two children, a son and a daughter.
Filmography (selection)
- 2002-2004: Saturday Night Live (TV series, 40 episodes )
- 2005: The Comeback (TV series, twelve episodes )
- 2005-2008: The Office (The Office, TV Series, 71 episodes )
- Since 2009: Parks and Recreation ( TV series)
- Since 2013: Brooklyn Nine -Nine ( TV series)
- 2006-2011: The Office (The Office, TV Series, nine episodes )
- 2007: The OC ( The OC, TV series, episode 4x13 )
- Since 2009: Parks and Recreation ( TV series)