Keynote Speaker
From Hogwarts Wizardry to Reality TV …
What’s the Next Big Thing in Entertainment?
2011 Guest Speaker Norman Steinberg ’61
Hear how this Emmy Award-winning writer and Hollywood insider keeps the creative juice flowing and hits on work that captures the zeitgeist of the moment.
Career Highlights
- Major honors: an Emmy Award, a Writer’s Guild Award, and a British Academy Award nomination, among others
- Short list of screenplay writing credits: Blazing Saddles, My Favorite Year, Johnny Dangerously, and production rewrites for Mr. Mom and Wise Guys
- Stints in television: writer, creator, showrunner, and executive producer on shows ranging from Cosby to the 2004 Academy Awards show to the Cinemax series, Chemistry, presently in development
- Current gig: piloting a novel MFA program in television writing and production while serving as the Parsons Family University Professor in TV Production at Long Island University
- Past gigs: teaching at Johns Hopkins and the American Film Institute
- Smarts: Earned a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and specialized in entertainment and copyright law as a practicing attorney in New York
- Where it started: Graduated magna cum laude from Maryland with a degree in history