The lowdown on Scrubs' creator
Bill Lawrence is the creator and executive producer of TV2's hit comedy series, Scrubs, which was named a Future Classic by the TV Land cable network, won a Humanitas Award, an Imagen Award, and was a nominee for a Peoples Choice Award, all in its first season.
A native of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Lawrence studied creative writing at the College of William and Mary and dreamed of writing the great American novel (no such luck so far).
After he graduated, a family friend, television writer Norman Barasch, advised him to write for television, so he moved to Los Angeles and began penning scripts. After several months, he was signed by the managers of Jerry Seinfeld and his career began to take off.
Lawrence wrote his first television script at the age of 22 for the comedy series Billy, starring Billy Connolly. His writing career began to skyrocket when he became a staff writer on TV2's Friends during its first season, penning the Valentine's Day episode.
By age 26 he had teamed with Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties) to co-create Spin City, Michael J Fox's return to network television. Lawrence continued to work on the series as a writer and producer, and became executive producer in the 1998-99 season. He also returned to the series in 2001 to write Fox's farewell episode, which garnered the actor an Emmy Award later that year.
Lawrence currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Christa Miller Lawrence, their children Charlotte and William, dogs Gus and Skye, and one fish that is barely holding on.
