Ken LaZebnik was born on November 11,1954 and is an American writer, best known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
16 Facts About Ken LaZebnik
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Ken LaZebnik's work has appeared in films such as A Prairie Home Companion and in television shows Touched by an Angel and Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Ken LaZebnik is the founder and director of the Master of Fine Arts in TV and Screenwriting program at Stephens College, a low residency program based in Hollywood.
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Ken LaZebnik is the author of the 2014 book Hollywood Digs: An Archeology of Shadows, a collection of essays about personal encounters with Hollywood history.
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Ken LaZebnik has an extensive career writing for film and television.
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Ken LaZebnik is credited with writing three specials for the PBS In Concert at the White House series.
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Ken LaZebnik was the writer for Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage a Lionsgate film released in 2008 which starred Peter O'Toole and Marcia Gay Harden.
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Ken LaZebnik has a shared story credit with Garrison Keillor on the film A Prairie Home Companion, directed by Robert Altman.
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Ken LaZebnik's work include eleven plays produced throughout the United States.
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Ken LaZebnik has written two plays on the subject of baseball, both of which were commissioned by the Mixed Blood Theatre Company and directed by its artistic director Jack Reuler.
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Ken LaZebnik has written three plays dealing with autism which have had runs at the Mixed Blood Theatre Company.
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In 1981, Ken LaZebnik founded The Minneapolis Review of Baseball, a quarterly journal of writing on baseball.
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Ken LaZebnik has written about baseball for The New York Times, Manhattan, inc.
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Ken LaZebnik is the founder and director of the Master of Fine Arts in TV and Screenwriting program at Stephens College, a low residency program based in Hollywood.
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Partial funding for the program came from Alex Trebek, a friend of Ken LaZebnik, who endowed a chair in the program for screenwriting.
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Ken LaZebnik is currently the Director of the TV Writers Studio at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.