Karyl Miller Writer-Producer,Showrunner, Editorial Cartoonist, Blogger, President, Southern
California Cartoonists Society, Author - Having it All in Hollywood
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: The Cosby Show (pilot and premiere season), BUY:Cosby Show Season One, My
Sister Sam, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, BUY:The Mary Tyler Moore Show,EMMY AWARD, Best Writing - Lily
Tomlin.
BOOK EDITOR: (Story Editing and dialogue punch up): YA series for teen girls ’Nama Beach High - Zondervan
Publishing (BUY:NewGirlInTown, FalseFriends, FaultLines).
SITCOM PILOTS: Exec Producer (show runner) and Writer/creator – Life Of Riley, the Country Music Sitcom,
pilot starring Mickey Gilley, Mel Tillis, Irlene Mandrell, and newcomer Joey Riley (Ozark Video Prods).BUY:
LifeOfRiley.
Original half-hour pilots, re-writes, and consultations on live-action and animated pilots for NBC Universal.
Millionaires, Norman Lear and CBS. Many half- hour pilots for NBC and ABC. Meet the Millers, Sherman Oaks
- Showtime.
DIRECTOR - Sherman Oaks sitcom series and pilot, Showtime. There It Is sitcom hip-hop pilot for Showtime.
All B roll monologues.
ANIMATION: Pilot project for Rosie O’Donnell. Damon Wayan's Waynehead series, Warner Bros. TV.
Consultant, The New Woody Woodpecker, Universal TV.
SITCOM SERIES: Supervising Producer and Writer - My Sister Sam (starring Pam Dawber and the late
Rebecca Schaeffer), Kate and Allie, The Cosby Show, Executive Story Consultant, Love Sydney (starring
Tony Randall), Diff'rent Strokes, and Erma Bombeck's Maggie. Written as Karyl Geld: Maude, Sanford and
Son, (co-written with Richard Pryor), Barney Miller, Bob Newhart, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and many
others. See IMDb.com
FEATURE SCRIPT: Scouts, for Kevin Costner's TIG Productions/Warner Bros.
IN PRINT: Daily Variety "Talk Back" – an insider's humorous essays.
AWARDS: Emmy Award Winner, Emmy Nominations (2), Writer's Guild of America Award Nominations (2), The
American Academy of Humor Best Writing Award, and the Rolling Stone Magazine TV Show of the Year Award.
People’s Choice Awards (2).
BOARD/CHARTER MEMBER: "First Stage" - L.A. play reading group
PRESIDENT 2007 to present - Southern California Cartoonists Society - the San Diego Chapter of the
National Cartoonists Society SCCS-online.org
KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop Conference, University of Dayton, Ohio. USC Film
School, UCLA Film and TV Dept., UCSD, San Francisco State U, UC Irvine, Caltech, Loyola-Marymount U,
Writers Guild Of America, California Women Lawyer’s Association and others.
LITERARY AGENT: Robert Eatman of Robert Eatman Enterprises. (310) 459-3728
UNION: The Writer's Guild of America, West.
