Lisa Zwerling
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Lisa Zwerling is an American physician (member of the American Medical Association
), television writer and producer (member of the Writers Guild of America
& the Producers Guild of America
). She has worked on the medical drama series Presidio Med
and ER
and science fiction series FlashForward
.
. The series was canceled before completing its first season. Presidio Med was created and executive produced by John Wells. Following the conclusion of Presidio Med Wells hired Zwerling as a story editor
for the tenth season of long running medical drama ER
. She made her writing debut for the series with the episode "NICU".
Zwerling returned for the eleventh season as an executive story editor. She wrote a further four episodes - "An Intern's Guide To The Galaxy", "Middleman", "Back in the World", and "Ruby Redux". "Back in the World" was co-written with executive producer and show runner
David Zabel
. "Ruby Redux" was co-written with executive producer Lydia Woodward
.
For the twelfth season Zwerling became a producer, initially being credited as a co-producer. Zwerling co-wrote the season opener "Canon City" with Wells and co-executive producer Joe Sachs
. She co-wrote a further episode, "Quintessence of Dust", again with Zabel, and scripted a third episode "Lost in America
" on her own.
She was promoted for the thirteenth season becoming a producer and contributing a further five episodes - "Graduation Day" (with executive producer Janine Sherman Barrois
), "Scoop and Run", "City of Mercy" (with Zabel), "Crisis of Conscience", and "Sea Change".
She garnered more responsibility for the fourteenth season becoming a supervising producer and writing a further five episodes including the season finale. She collaborated with staff writer Karen Maser
on "In A Different Light
" - Zwerling's first episode collaborating with a junior writer. She also wrote "The Test", "Atonement", "Truth Will Out" (again with Maser), and season finale "The Chicago Way" with David Zabel.
Zwerling is currently a co-executive producer and writer on the fifteenth and final season
of ER. She wrote the second episode of the season "Another Thursday at County." She also co-wrote "The Book of Abby" (again with Zabel) which was the final episode of longserving series star Maura Tierney
who plays Abby Lockhart
.
After the conclusion of ER
, she joined the crew of new ABC
science fiction series FlashForward in 2009. Zwerling served as a co-executive producer and writer for the series. The show focuses on a team of FBI agents following a global consciousness blackout that gives people a vision of their futures. The series was created by Brannon Braga
and David S. Goyer
both of whom also served as executive producers. Zwerling co-wrote five episodes for the first season. She co-wrote the episode "Black Swan" with Scott M. Gimple. She co-wrote the episode "The Gift" with Ian Goldberg. She co-wrote the episode "Blowback" with Barbara Nance. She co-wrote the episode "The Garden of Forking Paths" with Goyer.
She co-wrote the seasons penultimate episode "Countdown" with Seth Hoffman
.
Fox
has handed a late pilot order to Weekend At Bellevue, a medical drama from former ER writer-producer Lisa Zwerling and BermanBraun (Lloyd Braun
/Gail Berman
). The project, centered on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit, was originally set up at NBC and UMS earlier this season. After the network recently passed on the script, it was taken to Fox. Weekend at Bellevue is based on Dr. Julie Holland's memoir about her nine-year stint as the weekend physician in charge of the psychiatric emergency room at the oldest public hospital in the United States whose name has become synonymous with insanity. Zwerling, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein are executive producing.
American Medical Association
The American Medical Association , founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of medical doctors and medical students in the United States.-Scope and operations:...
), television writer and producer (member of the Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
& the Producers Guild of America
Producers Guild of America
Producers Guild of America is a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 4,700 members of the producing establishment worldwide...
). She has worked on the medical drama series Presidio Med
Presidio Med
Presidio Med is an American Television series which aired 2002–2003, centering around a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.-Series premise:...
and ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
and science fiction series FlashForward
Flashforward
A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...
.
Biography
Zwerling began her television career as a technical advisor and writer for the medical drama Presidio MedPresidio Med
Presidio Med is an American Television series which aired 2002–2003, centering around a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.-Series premise:...
. The series was canceled before completing its first season. Presidio Med was created and executive produced by John Wells. Following the conclusion of Presidio Med Wells hired Zwerling as a story editor
Story editor
Story editor is a job title in motion picture and television production, also sometimes called "supervising producer". A story editor is a member of the screenwriting staff who edits stories for screenplays....
for the tenth season of long running medical drama ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
. She made her writing debut for the series with the episode "NICU".
Zwerling returned for the eleventh season as an executive story editor. She wrote a further four episodes - "An Intern's Guide To The Galaxy", "Middleman", "Back in the World", and "Ruby Redux". "Back in the World" was co-written with executive producer and show runner
Show runner
Showrunner is a term of art originating in the United States and Canadian television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television seriesalthough such persons generally are credited as an executive producer...
David Zabel
David Zabel
David Zabel is an American television producer and writer. He has worked extensively on ER becoming an executive producer and the series showrunner. He has won an Humanitas Prize for his writing for ER...
. "Ruby Redux" was co-written with executive producer Lydia Woodward
Lydia Woodward
Lydia Woodward is an Emmy Award winning television writer and producer. She has worked as both a writer and producer on the primetime serial ER.-Positions held:*Pan Am *The Riches...
.
For the twelfth season Zwerling became a producer, initially being credited as a co-producer. Zwerling co-wrote the season opener "Canon City" with Wells and co-executive producer Joe Sachs
Joe Sachs
Joe Sachs is an American television writer and producer. He has worked extensively on ER in both capacities.-Career:Sachs is a qualified doctor who first became involved with ER as a technical advisor midway through the first season...
. She co-wrote a further episode, "Quintessence of Dust", again with Zabel, and scripted a third episode "Lost in America
Lost in America
Lost in America is a 1985 comedy film directed by Albert Brooks that was co-written by Brooks with Monica McGowan Johnson. Brooks stars alongside Julie Hagerty.-Plot:...
" on her own.
She was promoted for the thirteenth season becoming a producer and contributing a further five episodes - "Graduation Day" (with executive producer Janine Sherman Barrois
Janine Sherman Barrois
-Career:Sherman Barrois began her television career working as a writer on The Jamie Foxx Show. She wrote three episodes across the second and third seasons. She went on to become a co-producer of The PJs and then was hired as an executive story editor for Third Watch by John Wells...
), "Scoop and Run", "City of Mercy" (with Zabel), "Crisis of Conscience", and "Sea Change".
She garnered more responsibility for the fourteenth season becoming a supervising producer and writing a further five episodes including the season finale. She collaborated with staff writer Karen Maser
Karen Maser
Karen Maser is an American television writer and producer. She has worked extensively on the NBC medical drama ER.-Biography:Maser began her television career as a freelance writer. She wrote an episode of Cosby entitled "The Perfect Valentine" in 2000. She wrote an episode for the eleventh season...
on "In A Different Light
In A Different Light
In a Different Light is a 2009 album by the band Everclear. It is the band's first album with label 429 Records. The album is a collection of older Everclear songs from previous albums performed in a more stripped down and acoustic fashion, with one new song, "At the End of the Day".In a Different...
" - Zwerling's first episode collaborating with a junior writer. She also wrote "The Test", "Atonement", "Truth Will Out" (again with Maser), and season finale "The Chicago Way" with David Zabel.
Zwerling is currently a co-executive producer and writer on the fifteenth and final season
ER (season 15)
The fifteenth season of the American fictional drama television series ER premiered on September 25, 2008 and concluded on April 2, 2009, in a two-hour episode preceded by a one-hour retrospective special. The final season consists of 22 episodes....
of ER. She wrote the second episode of the season "Another Thursday at County." She also co-wrote "The Book of Abby" (again with Zabel) which was the final episode of longserving series star Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney
Maura Therese Tierney is an American film and television actress, who is best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on NewsRadio and Abby Lockhart on the television medical drama ER.-Early life:...
who plays Abby Lockhart
Abby Lockhart
Dr. Abby Lockhart is a fictional medical doctor on the television series ER. She is portrayed by Maura Tierney...
.
After the conclusion of ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, she joined the crew of new ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
science fiction series FlashForward in 2009. Zwerling served as a co-executive producer and writer for the series. The show focuses on a team of FBI agents following a global consciousness blackout that gives people a vision of their futures. The series was created by Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga is an American television producer and screenwriter, currently working as showrunner and executive producer on Terra Nova...
and David S. Goyer
David S. Goyer
David Samuel Goyer is an American screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.-Early life:Goyer was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Hebrew school and has described himself as "half Jewish"...
both of whom also served as executive producers. Zwerling co-wrote five episodes for the first season. She co-wrote the episode "Black Swan" with Scott M. Gimple. She co-wrote the episode "The Gift" with Ian Goldberg. She co-wrote the episode "Blowback" with Barbara Nance. She co-wrote the episode "The Garden of Forking Paths" with Goyer.
She co-wrote the seasons penultimate episode "Countdown" with Seth Hoffman
Seth Hoffman
Seth Hoffman is an American television producer and writer, best known for his work on Prison Break. He has also worked the television series House and FlashForward.-Prison Break :* 2.07 - "Buried"...
.
Fox
Fox
Fox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. Foxes are small to medium-sized canids , characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail .Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to...
has handed a late pilot order to Weekend At Bellevue, a medical drama from former ER writer-producer Lisa Zwerling and BermanBraun (Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun is a television and Internet media executive who currently runs the entertainment firm BermanBraun.-Early life and career:Braun earned his B.A. from Vassar College in 1980, and his law degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1983...
/Gail Berman
Gail Berman
Gail Berman is the former president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company and the former president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures.She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1978...
). The project, centered on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit, was originally set up at NBC and UMS earlier this season. After the network recently passed on the script, it was taken to Fox. Weekend at Bellevue is based on Dr. Julie Holland's memoir about her nine-year stint as the weekend physician in charge of the psychiatric emergency room at the oldest public hospital in the United States whose name has become synonymous with insanity. Zwerling, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein are executive producing.
Producer
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | FlashForward Flashforward A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future... |
Co-executive producer | Season 1 |
| 2009 | |||
| ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television... |
Co-executive producer | Season 15 ER (season 15) The fifteenth season of the American fictional drama television series ER premiered on September 25, 2008 and concluded on April 2, 2009, in a two-hour episode preceded by a one-hour retrospective special. The final season consists of 22 episodes.... |
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| 2008 | |||
| Supervising producer | Season 14 | ||
| 2007 | |||
| Producer | Season 13 | ||
| 2006 | |||
| Co-producer | Season 12 | ||
| 2005 | |||
| Executive story editor Story editor Story editor is a job title in motion picture and television production, also sometimes called "supervising producer". A story editor is a member of the screenwriting staff who edits stories for screenplays.... |
Season 11 | ||
| 2004 | |||
| Story editor | Season 10 | ||
| 2003 | |||
| Presidio Med Presidio Med Presidio Med is an American Television series which aired 2002–2003, centering around a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.-Series premise:... |
Story editor | Season 1 | |
| 2002 | |||
Writer
| Year | Show | Episode | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | FlashForward Flashforward A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future... |
"Countdown" | Season 1, episode 21 Co-written with Seth Hoffman Seth Hoffman Seth Hoffman is an American television producer and writer, best known for his work on Prison Break. He has also worked the television series House and FlashForward.-Prison Break :* 2.07 - "Buried"... |
| "The Garden of Forking Paths" | Season 1, episode 17 Co-written with David S. Goyer David S. Goyer David Samuel Goyer is an American screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.-Early life:Goyer was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Hebrew school and has described himself as "half Jewish"... |
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| "Blowback" | Season 1, episode 13 Co-written with Barbara Nance |
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| 2009 | "The Gift" | Season 1, episode 7 Co-written with Ian Goldberg |
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| "Black Swan" | Season 1, episode 4 Co-written with Scott M. Gimple |
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| 2008 | ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television... |
"The Book of Abby" | Season 15 ER (season 15) The fifteenth season of the American fictional drama television series ER premiered on September 25, 2008 and concluded on April 2, 2009, in a two-hour episode preceded by a one-hour retrospective special. The final season consists of 22 episodes.... , episode 3, co-written with David Zabel David Zabel David Zabel is an American television producer and writer. He has worked extensively on ER becoming an executive producer and the series showrunner. He has won an Humanitas Prize for his writing for ER... |
| "Another Thursday at County" | Season 15, episode 2 | ||
| "The Chicago Way" | Season 14, episode 19, co-written with David Zabel | ||
| "Truth Will Out" | Season 14, episode 16, co-written with Karen Maser Karen Maser Karen Maser is an American television writer and producer. She has worked extensively on the NBC medical drama ER.-Biography:Maser began her television career as a freelance writer. She wrote an episode of Cosby entitled "The Perfect Valentine" in 2000. She wrote an episode for the eleventh season... |
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| "Atonement" | Season 14, episode 13 | ||
| 2007 | "The Test" | Season 14, episode 6 | |
| "In A Different Light" | Season 14, episode 2, with Karen Maser | ||
| "Sea Change" | Season 13, episode 22 | ||
| "Crisis of Conscience" | Season 13, episode 16, co-written with David Zabel | ||
| "City of Mercy" | Season 13, episode 11 | ||
| 2006 | "Scoop and Run" | Season 13, episode 9 | |
| "Graduation Day" | Season 13, episode 2, co-written with Janine Sherman Barrois Janine Sherman Barrois -Career:Sherman Barrois began her television career working as a writer on The Jamie Foxx Show. She wrote three episodes across the second and third seasons. She went on to become a co-producer of The PJs and then was hired as an executive story editor for Third Watch by John Wells... |
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| "Lost in America" | Season 12, episode 17 | ||
| "Quintessence of Dust" | Season 12, episode 14, co-written with David Zabel | ||
| 2005 | "Canon City" | Season 12, episode 1, co-written with John Wells John Wells (TV producer) John Marcum Wells is an American theater and television producer, writer and director. He is best known for his role as executive producer and show runner of the television series ER, Third Watch, and The West Wing. His company, John Wells Productions, is currently based at Warner Bros. studios in... and Joe Sachs Joe Sachs Joe Sachs is an American television writer and producer. He has worked extensively on ER in both capacities.-Career:Sachs is a qualified doctor who first became involved with ER as a technical advisor midway through the first season... |
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| "Ruby Redux" | Season 11, episode 19, co-written with Lydia Woodward Lydia Woodward Lydia Woodward is an Emmy Award winning television writer and producer. She has worked as both a writer and producer on the primetime serial ER.-Positions held:*Pan Am *The Riches... |
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| "Back in the World" | Season 11, episode 17, co-written with David Zabel | ||
| "Middleman" | Season 11, episode 13 | ||
| 2004 | "An Intern's Guide To The Galaxy" | Season 11, episode 5 | |
| "NICU" | Season 10, episode 12 | ||