Peter Mehlman

Peter Mehlman is a television writer and producer. He attended the University of Maryland and was a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. His most famous contributions have been to the popular TV series Seinfeld, where he served as a producer and writer through nearly all of the show's nine-year run on NBC. He also produced the 2004 series, Father of the Pride and created the 1999 series It's Like, You Know.... Both were short-lived. Peter ... more

Peter Mehlman is a television writer and producer. He attended the University of Maryland and was a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. His most famous contributions have been to the popular TV series Seinfeld, where he served as a producer and writer through nearly all of the show's nine-year run on NBC. He also produced the 2004 series, Father of the Pride and created the 1999 series It's Like, You Know.... Both were short-lived. Peter Mehlman began his career as a sportswriter for the Washington Post. He made his first move from print journalism to television writing when, from 1982 to 1984, he wrote for and produced the television series, "SportsBeat" with Howard Cosell. For the next five years he returned to freelance magazine writing in New York for magazines such as the New York Times magazine , GQ , and Esquire. In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles and was offered the opportunity to write a script for "Seinfeld" by Larry David. As he had never written a script up to that... less