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Bill Lawrence (born December 6, 1968) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
, producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
 and director
Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode....
, best known as the creator of Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....
. Lawrence is married to the actress Christa Miller
Christa Miller

Christa Miller is an United States actress....
, and they have three children.

r graduating from the College of William & Mary, where he was a brother of the Kappa Alpha Order, Lawrence wrote for hit shows including Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
, Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World is an Television in the United States television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, who grows up from a young boy to a married man....
, and The Nanny
The Nanny (TV series)

The Nanny is an United States situation comedy co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for CBS....
 and produced the animated series
Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
 Clone High
Clone High

| show_name = Clone High | image = The main characters of Clone High: Mr. Lynn Butlertron, JFK , Cleopatra , Abe , Joan , Gandhi , and Cinnamon J. Scudworth ...
.






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Bill Lawrence (born December 6, 1968) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
, producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
 and director
Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode....
, best known as the creator of Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....
. Lawrence is married to the actress Christa Miller
Christa Miller

Christa Miller is an United States actress....
, and they have three children.

Career

After graduating from the College of William & Mary, where he was a brother of the Kappa Alpha Order, Lawrence wrote for hit shows including Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
, Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World is an Television in the United States television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, who grows up from a young boy to a married man....
, and The Nanny
The Nanny (TV series)

The Nanny is an United States situation comedy co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for CBS....
 and produced the animated series
Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
 Clone High
Clone High

| show_name = Clone High | image = The main characters of Clone High: Mr. Lynn Butlertron, JFK , Cleopatra , Abe , Joan , Gandhi , and Cinnamon J. Scudworth ...
. He is also the creator of the sitcom Spin City
Spin City

Spin City is an United States sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on American Broadcasting Corporation. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence , the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J....
 and his current venture, the comedy-drama
Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama, also called dramedy, dramatic comedy, or seriocomedy, is a style of television and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content....
 Scrubs, which has finished seven seasons on NBC and is moving to ABC as a 2008-09 midseason replacement. He is also one of the producers of the rejected television pilot
Television pilot

A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. It is an early step in the development of a television series, much like pilot lights or pilot serve as precursors to the start of larger activity, or pilot holes prepare the way for larger holes....
 Nobody's Watching
Nobody's Watching

Nobody's Watching is a television program that was never aired. It originated with and was written by Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence , as well as Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, writers for Scrubs and Family Guy....
. In 2006-07 he was prepping the film "Fletch Won" (which is a prequel to the previous Fletch films), but after Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....
 star Zach Braff
Zach Braff

Zachary "Zach" Israel Braff is an United Statesn actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. During the 2000s, he became known for his role as J.D....
 dropped out, Bill Lawrence then soon after dropped out as well.

Along with many Scrubs cast members, Bill Lawrence also has a small role playing himself in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie is an NBC television movie produced by Jim Henson Television in 2002 in film, starring Jim Henson's Muppets....
 in a scene with Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy

Miss Pigathius "Piggy" Lee is a Muppet character who was primarily played by Frank Oz and sometimes Richard Hunt in Season 1 of The Muppet Show....
.

In a season six
List of Scrubs episodes

The following is a complete episode list for the television show Scrubs , which began being broadcast on October 2, 2001.NBC had announced that Scrubs would end after its seventh season, containing a reduced 18 episodes....
 episode
Their Story

"Their Story" is the 134th episode of the United States situation comedy Scrubs . It was aired as episode 17 of season 6 on April 19, 2007....
 of Scrubs, Bill appeared as an extra in the coffee shop. He is currently writing a pilot called Cougar Town, starring Courtney Cox. It starts shooting in January.

Shows Created

  • Scrubs
    Scrubs (TV series)

    Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....
     (2001-present)
  • Clone High
    Clone High

    | show_name = Clone High | image = The main characters of Clone High: Mr. Lynn Butlertron, JFK , Cleopatra , Abe , Joan , Gandhi , and Cinnamon J. Scudworth ...
     (2002-2003) (co-creator)
  • Spin City
    Spin City

    Spin City is an United States sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on American Broadcasting Corporation. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence , the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J....
     (1996-2002) (co-creator); worked on show (1996-2000)
  • Cougar Town: Produced by ABC Studios and penned by Lawrence and Kevin Biegel , . The comedy series centers on an attractive, newly single 40-year-old mom
    MILF

    MILF may refer to:* Mother I'd like to fuck , slang for an Age disparity in sexual relationships#Slang terms who is also a mother* Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim separatist rebel group in the Philippines...
     (Courtney Cox) with a 17-year-old son. , ,


Episodes Written For TV


Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....

  • My First Day (Pilot)
    My First Day

    "My First Day" is the television pilot of the United States comedy-drama Scrubs . It originally aired as Episode 1 of Season 1 on October 2, 2001....
  • My Mentor
  • My Nickname
  • My Occurrence
    My Occurrence

    "My Occurrence" is the 22nd episode of the American sitcom Scrubs . It originally aired as Episode 22 of Season 1 on May 7, 2002.Plot...
  • My Overkill
  • My T.C.W.
  • My Own American Girl
  • My Catalyst
  • My Changing Ways
  • My Intern's Eyes
  • My ABC's
    My ABC's

    My ABC's is the 155th episode of the eighth season of the ABC Studios television series Scrubs. It was broadcast on January 27, 2009...


Nobody's Watching
Nobody's Watching

Nobody's Watching is a television program that was never aired. It originated with and was written by Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence , as well as Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, writers for Scrubs and Family Guy....

2005 TV Pilot that was never picked up. (Co-written with Scrubs writers Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan)

Clone High
Clone High

| show_name = Clone High | image = The main characters of Clone High: Mr. Lynn Butlertron, JFK , Cleopatra , Abe , Joan , Gandhi , and Cinnamon J. Scudworth ...

  • Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand


Spin City
Spin City

Spin City is an United States sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on American Broadcasting Corporation. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence , the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J....

  • Pilot
  • The Apartment
  • Bye Bye Love
  • Paul Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • The Paul Lassiter Story
  • Goodbye (Part 2)
  • A Friend in Need


Champs

  • The Loop
  • Live and Let Breathe..............


Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....

  • The One with the Candy Hearts


The Nanny
The Nanny (TV series)

The Nanny is an United States situation comedy co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for CBS....

  • The Family Plumbing
  • Stock Tip


Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World is an Television in the United States television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, who grows up from a young boy to a married man....

  • The Father/Son Game


Episodes of TV Directed


Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....

  • My Dream Job
  • My Own American Girl
  • My Best Friends Wedding
  • My Old Friend's New Friend
  • My Intern's Eyes
  • My Rite of Passage
  • My Missed Perception
  • My Transition
    My Transition

    "My Transition" is the 24th and final episode of the fifth season of Scrubs . It first aired May 16, 2006 and is episode number 117....
  • My Turf War
    My Turf War

    "My Turf War" is the 135th episode of the United States sitcom Scrubs . It aired as episode 18 of season 6 on April 26, 2007....
  • My Own Worst Enemy
    My Own Worst Enemy (Scrubs)

    "My Own Worst Enemy" is the first episode of the seventh season of the United States comedy-drama Scrubs . It originally aired on October 25, 2007, and was watched by 6.95 million viewers....
  • My Inconvenient Truth
    My Inconvenient Truth

    "My Inconvenient Truth" is the 142nd episode of the American sitcom Scrubs . It aired as Episode 3 of Season 7 on November 8, 2007, during NBC's Go Green Week....
  • My Last Words
  • My ABC's


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