David Zabel is an American television producer and writer. He has worked extensively on ER becoming an executive producer and the series current showrunner. He has won an Humanitas Prize for his writing for ER.
Zabel began his scriptwriting career with episodes for JAG and Star Trek: Voyager. He then became the story editor for the first season of Dark Angel in 2000 while continuing to write teleplays. In 2001 Zabel joined the crew of ER as an Ex...
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David Zabel is an American television producer and writer. He has worked extensively on ER becoming an executive producer and the series current showrunner. He has won an Humanitas Prize for his writing for ER.
Zabel began his scriptwriting career with episodes for JAG and Star Trek: Voyager. He then became the story editor for the first season of Dark Angel in 2000 while continuing to write teleplays. In 2001 Zabel joined the crew of ER as an Executive Story Editor and was promoted to Co-executive Producer later that season. He was made Executive Producer part way through the eleventh season and took on the role of showrunner for the thirteenth season. Zabel has regularly written episodes throughout his time working on ER and had contributed to 38 scripts by the end of the fourteenth season.
Zabel and R. Scott Gemmill were awarded the Humanitas Prize in the 60 minutes category in 2007 for their script for the twelfth season episode "There Are No Angels Here" which followed doctors...
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