Danny Zuker ’86, Emmy Award-Winning Writer, Executive Producer of ‘Modern Family,’ to Visit Newhouse April 4 and 5

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, By Wendy S. Loughlin

zukerNewhouse alumnus Danny Zuker ’86, Emmy Award-winning writer and executive producer of ABC’s “Modern Family,” will visit the Newhouse School as a guest of the school’s Department of Television, Radio and Film. He will give a public talk on Friday, April 5, at noon in Room 102, Newhouse 1.

Zuker will also meet and work with students in Newhouse’s “Advanced Screenwriting” course.

Zuker has served as a writer and producer for “Modern Family” since its debut in 2009. He has also written for “The Unusuals,” “The Men’s Room,” “Off Centre,” “Jesse,” “Just Shoot Me!,” “Fired Up,” “Grace Under Fire,” “Roseanne,” “Evening Shade” and “The Arsenio Hall Show,” where he got his start.

He has worked as a producer on “Stacked,” “Jesse,” “The Men’s Room,” “Off Centre,” “The Unusuals,” “Watching Ellie” and “Just Shoot Me!”

He is the recipient of Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series (2010, 2011, 2012); a Producers Guild of America Award for Television Producer of the Year in Episodic (2011, 2012); and Writers Guild of America Awards for Comedy Series (2011, 2012) and New Series (2010). He was inducted into the Newhouse Professional Gallery last fall.

For more information about his visit, contact Mary Ann Durantini at 315-443-2150 or mmdurant@syr.edu.