Dan Staley - American screenwriter and Television Producer

Dan Staley is an American screenwriter and television producer. Staley began his career in advertising, working as a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson and David Deutsch Associates, now Deutsch Inc. In his five years in advertising, he won the Clio and One Show Gold, the highest creative awards in the advertising industry. Staley began writing for television in 1990. With former writing partner

Rob Long Robert Long is an American writer and television producer in Hollywood. As a screenwriter and executive producer for the long-running television program ''Cheers'', he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. Long created the ...

, he worked on the final four seasons of NBC's '' Cheers''. Staley & Long wrote 14 episodes of ''Cheers'' and eventually rose to be co-executive producers for the show’s final season (1992–93). The team went on to create numerous pilots and series for Paramount's Network Television division, including ''

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'', '' Good Company'', ''

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'', '' Love & Money'' and ''

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''. Staley began writing on his own in 2008; his first solo credit was an episode of hit U.K. sitcom''

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'' (BBC) in 2010. Staley went on to be executive producer and showrunner of Disney Channel's ''

Good Luck Charlie ''Good Luck Charlie'' is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from April 4, 2010, to February 16, 2014. The series' creators, Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, no ...

'', which ended its 100 episode run in 2014. From 2017-18, Staley was on the writing staff of ''

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'' (CBS). Staley has been nominated for the Emmy award five times: i
1992, 1993, 2012, 2013 and 2014
In 2013, he was nominated for a PGA award for Outstanding Children's Program. In 2015, he was nominated for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Individual Episode for the ''Good Luck Charlie ''episode "Down a Tree” (first episode of children’s TV to feature same-sex parents). Born and raised in Southern California, Staley is a 1985 graduate of

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. He currently divides his time between Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California.

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DanStaley.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Staley, Dan 1963 births Television producers from California American television writers American male television writers Living people People from Manhattan Beach, California Yale University alumni Screenwriters from California