Marc Scott Zicree

Marc Scott Zicree has written and produced hundreds of hours of TV programs and worked for virtually all the major studios and networks. His credits include Star Trek- The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, Beauty And The Beast, Forever Knight, Sliders, Friday The 13th - The Series, Liberty's Kids, Superfriends, He-Man, Real Ghostbusters and Smurfs, and many others, as well as pilots For CBS, NBC, ABC and Showtime. Zicree's landmark book The Twilight Zone Companion has been credited with creating the modern genre of books on TV series and inspiring a generation of series creators and filmmakers, including J.J Abrams and Damon Lindelof. The Companion was an instant bestseller (over a half million copies to date) and named in 2006 by the New York Times one of "ten science fiction books for the ages," the only non-fiction book on the list. Zicree is regarded as one of the country's top media experts and has been interviewed by hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio shows, including The Today Show, American Masters, All Things Considered, Entertainment Tonight, E! True Hollywood Story, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Variety, New York Times and L.A. Times. Beyond his three-year stint as a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition he is a regular guest on Coast To Coast, one of the country's top rated night-time radio shows. In addition, Zicree is a lauded novelist with the bestselling Magic Time trilogy, published by HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio. (The books are scheduled for a new release from HarperCollins in September, 2014.) Zicree has lectured at many colleges, professional conferences and museums in America, Europe and Asia, including USC, UCLA, Stanford and Ithaca, where he was a keynote speaker. Over the last decade, he and his wife Elaine - as the Supermentors -- have taught classes for thousands of writers, directors, actors and producers, guiding them to successful careers. Their classes have been lauded by such magazines as Written By, Script and Creative Screenwriting, and the Writers Store named their DVD on How To Sell a TV Series one of "ten essentials for a screenwriting career." Beyond this, the Zicrees are founders and for the last twenty years have run The Table, which has provided a supportive community to thousands of Industry professionals in Hollywood and around the world. The documentary on the Table won Best Documentary Award at the SoCal Film Festival and has been screening on Hulu and Netflix and via iTunes. One of Zicree's recent credits is Star Trek "World Enough and Time" starring George Takei, which he and Elaine executive produced. Marc co-wrote the script with Emmy-winner Michael Reaves and also directed the episode, which won the TV Guide Award - beating NBC Universal's Battlestar Galactica - and was nominated for science fiction's top two prizes, the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He also produced and did fifty episode commentaries for the Twilight Zone Blu-ray release. Beyond this, Marc has been nominated for the American Book Award, Humanitas Prize and Diane Thomas Award, has won the prestigious Hamptons Prize, Rondo and Saturn Awards and was just named by the Writers Guild a 2014 WGA Diversity Honoree. Most recently, Marc has co-written with director Guillermo del Toro the book Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities for HarperCollins (which just debuted at number one in movie books on Amazon), worked on Lost Mars, a TV miniseries project with science fiction legend Ray Bradbury, and teamed with producer Gabe Sachs (Freaks And Geeks, Just Shoot Me, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid) on the TV series version of Magic Time. Marc is currently writing, directing and producing Space Command, a series of science fiction features starring Doug Jones (Pan's Labyrinth, Falling Skies, The Strain), Armin Shimerman (Deep Space Nine, Buffy), Mira Furlan (Babylon 5, Lost), Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) and Robert Picardo & Ethan Phillips (Star Trek Voyager). He just started principal photography on the first film, at Space Command Studios in Pico Rivera, California.