User:DHack/Draft Sam Bobrick

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Sam Bobrick (born July 24, 1932) is an American playwright and television writer. He is best known for creating the television program Good Morning, Miss Bliss which became the hit series Saved By The Bell and for his numerous plays, four of which were co-authored with Ron Clark.

Biography[edit]

After his 1st year in college, which was disastrous, Bobrick joined the Air Force. It was in the service that he began his long and varied writing career by becoming the editor and sole contributor to The Tribe Scribe, a bi-monthly politically incorrect and militarily offensive base newspaper which, while very popular with the troops, was the lowest rated paper in the Armed Forces and on one occasion almost got him court martialed. After three years, nine months, and twenty-three days in the Air Force, he was honorable discharged and decided to return to college.

After graduating from the University of Illinois with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Journalism, Mr. Bobrick made his way to New York where after several years of living on hot dogs and jelly donuts he landed his first big job as a writer on Captain Kangaroo. His television credits also include The Andy Griffith Show, Get Smart, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

It was while doing the television variety show, The Kraft Music Hall, in New York that Mr. Bobrick got involved with theatre, co-writing his first play Norman, Is That You?. He then went on to write and co-write over thirty plays, many of them performed throughout the world including: Murder At The Howard Johnson's, Weekend Comedy, The Crazy Time, Getting Sara Married, Remember Me?, Hamlet II (Better Than the Original), and The Psychic, winner of the 2011 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

In addition to writing for television and the stage, Mr. Bobrick has also written songs which have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Brian Ferry, and Los Lobos. He also co-wrote all the songs for the two MAD Magazine albums, Mad Twists Rock 'N' Roll and Fink Along With MAD, which included the cult classic It's a Gas. Recently Sam and his son Joey wrote the music and lyrics for a country and western comedy album — The Cow Pies “Totally Twisted Country.”

Mr. Bobrick is married to writer Julie Stein with whom he has written several plays including, The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon & Mrs. Levine and Lenny's Back.

Mr. Bobrick is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, as well as the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America. He has directed many of his plays in regional theatres in the U.S. and Canada.

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Plays[edit]

Bobrick began writing plays in the 1970s with fellow playwright Ron Clark. Their first play, Norman, Is That You?, premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater on February 19, 1970. The two men went on to write several more Broadway plays together, including No Hard Feelings (1973), Murder at the Howard Johnson's (1979), and Wally's Cafe (1981).

Bobrick has written several more plays either by himself or with other writers besides Clark, including the plays Weekend Comedy, The Crazy Time, Getting Sara Married, Remember Me?, Last Chance Romance and Hamlet II among many others. One of his collaborators is his wife, the writer Julie Stein, with whom he has penned the plays The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon & Mrs. Levine and Lenny’s Back. The former play is an adaptation from a book by Bobrick and his wife entitled Sheldon & Mrs. Levine that was published in 1994.

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Category:1932 births Category:Living people Category:American dramatists and playwrights Category:American screenwriters Category:Edgar Award winners Category:University of Illinois alumni Category:Writers Guild of America Award winners

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