Gregg Kavet is a writer and director who worked on
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
's
SeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
for several seasons with collaborator
Andy RobinAndy Robin is a writer and director who started his career at Saturday Night Live and spent many seasons on NBC's Seinfeld, initially solo, later partnering with collaborator Gregg Kavet. Solo efforts include The Junior Mint; with Kavet The Jimmy and The Fatigues, which won the Writers Guild Award...
. The team wrote episodes including "The Jimmy", "
The Hot Tub"The Hot Tub" is the 115th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 5th episode for the 7th season. It aired on October 26, 1995.-Plot:...
", "The Caddy", "The Bottle Deposit", "
The Fatigues"The Fatigues" is the 140th episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. This was the sixth episode for the eighth season. It aired on October 31, 1996.-Plot:...
", "The Comeback", "
The Nap"The Nap" is the 152nd episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 18th episode for the 8th season. It aired on April 10, 1997. Larry David returned to continue the recurring role of George Steinbrenner, whom he would play in two other episodes near the end of this season and in the show's...
", and "
The Slicer"The Slicer" is the 163rd episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 7th episode of the 9th and final season. It first aired on November 13, 1997.-Plot:...
". The Fatigues won the 1997
Writers Guild of America AwardThe Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...
for best television comedy.
Kavet and Robin wrote and directed the feature film
Live Free or Die. This independent film won the Jury Prize for best narrative at the 2006
South By SouthwestSouth by Southwest is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. SXSW first began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center...
Film Festival and was awarded the Jury Prize in New American Cinema at the 2006
Seattle International Film FestivalThe Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington, is the largest film festival in North America, and among the top film festivals in the world. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
.
Gregg Kavet is a writer and director who worked on
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
's
SeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
for several seasons with collaborator
Andy RobinAndy Robin is a writer and director who started his career at Saturday Night Live and spent many seasons on NBC's Seinfeld, initially solo, later partnering with collaborator Gregg Kavet. Solo efforts include The Junior Mint; with Kavet The Jimmy and The Fatigues, which won the Writers Guild Award...
. The team wrote episodes including "The Jimmy", "
The Hot Tub"The Hot Tub" is the 115th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 5th episode for the 7th season. It aired on October 26, 1995.-Plot:...
", "The Caddy", "The Bottle Deposit", "
The Fatigues"The Fatigues" is the 140th episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. This was the sixth episode for the eighth season. It aired on October 31, 1996.-Plot:...
", "The Comeback", "
The Nap"The Nap" is the 152nd episode of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 18th episode for the 8th season. It aired on April 10, 1997. Larry David returned to continue the recurring role of George Steinbrenner, whom he would play in two other episodes near the end of this season and in the show's...
", and "
The Slicer"The Slicer" is the 163rd episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 7th episode of the 9th and final season. It first aired on November 13, 1997.-Plot:...
". The Fatigues won the 1997
Writers Guild of America AwardThe Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...
for best television comedy.
Kavet and Robin wrote and directed the feature film
Live Free or Die. This independent film won the Jury Prize for best narrative at the 2006
South By SouthwestSouth by Southwest is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. SXSW first began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center...
Film Festival and was awarded the Jury Prize in New American Cinema at the 2006
Seattle International Film FestivalThe Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington, is the largest film festival in North America, and among the top film festivals in the world. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
. They also wrote the 2005 Simon Spotlight book
Saving Face, a humorous guide to awkward social situations.
Kavet grew up in
Wayland, MassachusettsWayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,100 at the 2000 census.For geographic and demographic information on Cochituate, which is part of Wayland, please see the article Cochituate, Massachusetts.-History:...
, attending
Wayland High SchoolWayland High School is a secondary school located at 264 Old Connecticut Path in Wayland, Massachusetts. Its principal is Patrick Tutwiler. The style of the high school was inspired by college campuses: there are 8 separate buildings, each dedicated to one or more general areas of study. ...
and
Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
. He currently makes his home in
Los AngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...
.
Season 7
- "The Hot Tub
"The Hot Tub" is the 115th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 5th episode for the 7th season. It aired on October 26, 1995.-Plot:...
"
- "The Caddy"
- "The Bottle Deposit"
Season 9
- "The Slicer
"The Slicer" is the 163rd episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 7th episode of the 9th and final season. It first aired on November 13, 1997.-Plot:...
" (with Robin and Darin HenryDarin Henry is an American television writer. He has written for many different television series, including Seinfeld, Futurama and The War at Home...
)
- "The Frogger
"The Frogger" is the 174th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 18th episode for the 9th and final season. It aired on April 23, 1998.-Plot:...
" (with Robin, Steve KorenSteven Wayne Koren is an American screenwriter. He was one of the writers for the movies Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Click, Superstar, and A Night at the Roxbury, and wrote for Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld....
and Dan O'Keefe)
- "The Puerto Rican Day
"The Puerto Rican Day" is the 176th and penultimate episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. It aired on May 7, 1998, and was the 20th episode of the 9th and final season. It was the show's second-highest-rated episode of all time, with 38.8 million viewers, only behind the series finale. The episode...
" (with Robin, Koren, O'Keefe, Alec BergAlec Berg is a comedy writer, best known as a writer for the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the 2003 film version of The Cat in the Hat and the teen comedy EuroTrip in 2004...
, Jennifer CrittendenJennifer Crittenden is a television sitcom writer, who was educated at The Thacher School in Ojai, California and graduated from Wesleyan University. She has written episodes for several popular television shows of the 1990s, including The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond and the later seasons of...
, Spike FerestenMichael Donovan "Spike" Feresten, Jr. is an American television writer, screenwriter and television personality.-Origins and early career:Feresten was born in Fall River and raised in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he attended public schools. Feresten then attended Berklee College of Music...
, Bruce Eric KaplanBruce Eric Kaplan, known as BEK, is an American cartoonist whose single-panel cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker. Kaplan's cartoons are known for their signature simplistic style and often dark humor...
, David MandelDavid Mandel is an executive producer of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and one of the producers of the teen-comedy Eurotrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons. He is also one of the creators of Clerks: The Animated Series, and he was a writer for Saturday Night Live...
, and Jeff Schaffer