Lissa Levin

LISSA LEVIN is a playwright, librettist/lyricist, and a twenty-five year veteran of television as a writer/producer. Levin won the prestigious Kleban Award for her libretto for TWIST OF FATE, her musical with Ron Abel, composer, which also won L.A. Weekly?s Musical Of The Year, two L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, and was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Musical. Levin?s television credits as a writer and/or producer, include the Emmy Award-winning MAD ABOUT YOU and CHEERS; WKRP IN CINCINNATI, FAMILY TIES, the Showtime series BROTHERS (which garnered her a cable ACE Award nomination), COMPLETE SAVAGES (Mel Gibson, Co-Executive Producer),the UPN drama, LIVE SHOT, THUNDER ALLEY (with Ed Asner), MR. BELVEDERE, A DIFFERENT WORLD, and ALL IN THE FAMILY spin-off GLORIA (with Sally Struthers), amongst many others. Levin is currently writing the book for the Broadway-bound musical HAZEL, based on the iconic cartoon and tv character, with composer Ron Abel and lyricist Chuck Stephen. Her seriously smart comedy SEX AND EDUCATION, was featured at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival, the D.C. Capital Theatre Festival, a 2011 run at the Victory Theatre in Los Angeles, and is now included in Burbank, California's The Colony Theatre 2013-14 season. Levin is proud co-author of ?Pisser,? (written with composer Adryan Russ), a musical rant about the lack of sufficient bathroom stalls in women?s restrooms in theaters. The show-stopping sensation was presented at LIFE?S A STITCH, a theatrical evening Levin helped develop and produce with Russ, benefiting the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation. The show was based on a Random House collection of contemporary humor by noted women in the arts from Wendy Wasserstein to Gloria Steinem, of which Levin was an essayist. A staunch activist in the fight against breast cancer, Levin also produced MAMMOJAM, a benefit for the Foundation at a Hollywood dance club, featuring Louis Van Amstel of ?Dancing With The Stars.? She is married to tv/film writer/producer/director Dan Guntzelman, and is the proud mother of Kanin Guntzelman, actor/director/producer; and Logan Guntzelman, writer/stand-up performer.