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honored by the Museum of Television and Radio, it has received the Brandon Tartikoff
Legacy Award from NATPE, the David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Producers Guild of America and a place in the Museum of the American Dream as one of
the 20 th century’s most extraordinary achievers.
Werner was recently appointed to the California Film Commission by Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger and has been on the White House Fellows Commission. He has
also served on the board of a number of philanthropic organizations including Crossroads
School in Los Angeles and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Since 1984 CARYN MANDABACH (Executive Producer) has developed and
produced more than 1,500 half-hours of the highest-quality comedy television. Her first
effort, The Cosby Show, ran for eight seasons. Other hits include A Different World,
Roseanne, Cybill, 3 rd Rock from the Sun and That ’70s Show. These shows, along with
many others, created well over $1 billion in value for what eventually became the
Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Company—the last independent comedy supplier in
America.
In August 2004, Mandabach started her own company, eponymously titled Caryn
Mandabach Productions. Thus far, CMP has garnered a deal with the BBC to own and
produce five comedy scripts, three of which will be piloted for U.K. series consideration.
Additionally, Mandabach has set up five scripts stateside to be produced for cable and
network television. Canadian indie Lionsgate is the distributor of CMP product.
Mandabach has won numerous awards including the Emmy, the Humanitas, the
People’s Choice and the Peabody. She has been a keynote speaker at the Edinburgh
Television Festival and has been honored by the Producers Guild, Promax, NATPE,
Women in Film and numerous other organizations for her efforts.
She has two children, Marisa and Jonathan, whom she finds amusing.
Originally from San Antonio, Texas, RAMSEY NICKELL (Director of
Photography) moved to Los Angeles in 1988. Nickell started in the film industry in the
time-honored position of production assistant. He rapidly rose through the ranks of
electrician, best boy and gaffer to director of photography. He had the good fortune to be