David Breitel Zabel is an American television producer and writer.
13 Facts About David Zabel
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David Zabel has worked extensively on ER, becoming an executive producer and the series' showrunner.
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David Zabel has won a Humanitas Prize for his writing for ER.
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David Zabel attended Princeton University and New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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David Zabel then became the story editor for the first season of Dark Angel in 2000 while continuing to write teleplays.
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In 2001, David Zabel joined the crew of ER as an executive story editor and was promoted to co-executive producer later that season.
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David Zabel was made executive producer partway through the tenth season and took on the role of showrunner for the eleventh season.
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David Zabel led the show through the 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike and picketed along with the rest of the writing team.
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Thirteen episodes were written prior to the strike, and new episodes were written once the strike was resolved, so David Zabel was able to deliver a shortened 19 episode season.
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David Zabel was nominated for a second Humanitas Prize for writing the episode "Heal Thyself," which he directed.
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David Zabel served as executive producer and showrunner on both shows.
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In 2022, David Zabel replaced Angela Kang as showrunner of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, a spin-off series in The Walking Dead franchise.
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David Zabel wrote or co-wrote three episodes in its first season.