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 (born June 8, 1965) 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 1 ...

, he worked on the final four seasons of NBC's ''

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''. 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 ''

Pig Sty ''Pig Sty'' is an American sitcom that aired on UPN during the network's first season. The series premiered on January 23, 1995, ran on Monday nights, after '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and '' Platypus Man'', and was cancelled after 13 episodes on ...

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

George and Leo ''George and Leo'' is an American sitcom television series starring Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsch that aired on CBS from September 15, 1997 to March 16, 1998. Synopsis Newhart and Hirsch starred as the respective title characters, widely dive ...

'', ''

Love & Money ''Love & Money'' is an American sitcom television series created by Rob Long and Dan Staley, that aired from CBS on October 8, 1999 to July 18, 2000. Aired and unaired episodes later aired on HDNet. Premise On the day of her wedding, the elde ...

'' and ''

Men, Women & Dogs ''Men, Women & Dogs'' is an American television sitcom starring Bill Bellamy. The series premiered October 14, 2001 on The WB. Plot The series centered on four guys who meet every day with their dogs in a Los Angeles dog park. Among those shown ...

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

My Family ''My Family'' is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadc ...

'' (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 aired on Disney Channel from April 4, 2010, to February 16, 2014. It focuses on the Duncan family of Denver as they adjust to the births of their fourth and later fifth children, Charlotte "Char ...

'', which ended its 100-episode run in 2014. From 2017 to 2018, Staley was on the writing staff of ''

Kevin Can Wait ''Kevin Can Wait'' is an American television sitcom starring Kevin James that aired on CBS from September 19, 2016, to May 7, 2018. The series was created by James, Rock Reuben, and Bruce Helford, marking James' second starring role in a CBS sit ...

'' (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 The GLAAD Media Award is a US accolade bestowed by GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding portrayals of LGBTQ people and the issues that affect their lives. In addition to film and television, the Awards ...

for Outstanding Individual Episode for the ''Good Luck Charlie ''episode "Down a Tree” (the 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 Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. 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 Television writers from California American male television writers Living people People from Manhattan Beach, California Yale University alumni