Karyl Miller             
  Writer-Producer-Showrunner
2006

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: "The Cosby Show," (pilot and premiere season) BUY:Cosby Show Season One "My Sister Sam," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "BUY:The Mary Tyler Moore Show EMMY AWARD, Best Writing - "Lily Tomlin." 

BOOK EDITOR: (Story Editing and dialogue punch up): New series of books for teenage girls “’Nama Beach High,” - Zondervan Publishing (BUY:NewGirlInTown, FalseFriends, FaultLines  ).

SITCOM PILOTS:  Exec Producer (showrunner) and Writer – "Life Of Riley - The Country Music Sitcom," sitcom pilot starring Mickey Gilley, Mel Tillis, Irlene Mandrell, and newcomer Joey Riley (Ozark Video Prods).BUY:LifeRiley

 An original half-hour pilot, re-writes, and consultations on live-action and animated pilots for (Universal TV).  “Millionaires,” Norman Lear and CBS.  Many half- hour pilots for NBC and ABC.  “Meet the Millers,” Showtime.

ANIMATION: Pilot project for Rosie O’Donnell.  Damon Wayan's "Waynehead," Warner Bros. TV.  Consultant, “The New Woody Woodpecker,” Universal TV.

SITCOM SERIES: Supervising Producer and Writer - "My Sister Sam" (starring Pam Dawber and the late Rebecca Schaeffer), "Kate and Allie,"  "The Cosby Show," Executive Story Consultant "Love Sydney," (starring Tony Randall) "Different Strokes," and "Erma Bombeck's Maggie.”  Written as Karyl Geld: "Maude," "Sanford and Son," (co-written with Richard Pryor),”Barney Miller," "Bob Newhart," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and many others. 

FEATURE SCRIPT: "Scouts," for Kevin Costner's TIG Productions/Warner Bros.  

IN PRINT: Daily Variety "Talk Back" – an insider's humorous essays

AWARDS: Emmy Award Winner, Emmy Nominations (2), Writer's Guild of America Award Nominations (2), The American Academy of Humor Best Writing Award, and the Rolling Stone Magazine TV Show of the Year Award.  People’s Choice Awards (2).

BOARD/CHARTER MEMBER: "First Stage" - L.A. play reading group 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER - 2004 Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop Conference, University of Dayton, Ohio.  USC Film School,  UCLA Film and TV Dept.,  UCSD,  San Francisco State U,  UC Irvine, Caltech, Loyola-Marymount U,  Writers Guild Of America, California Women Lawyer’s Association, Black Women Lawyer's Association.

LITERARY AGENT: Robert Eatman of Robert Eatman Enterprises.  (310) 459-3728 

UNION: The Writer's Guild of America, West.

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