Rich Hosek is a television writer and novelist whose screen credits include Star Trek: Voyager,

Hope and Gloria ''Hope & Gloria'' is an American sitcom television series created by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, that aired on NBC from March 9, 1995, through June 22, 1996. The show was canceled after 35 episodes. It starred Cynthia Stevenson as Hope, a high ...

, Pacific Blue,

The New Addams Family ''The New Addams Family'' is a Gothic sitcom that aired from October 1998 to August 1999 on YTV in Canada, Fox Family in the United States, and CITV in the United Kingdom on weekends. It was produced by Shavick Entertainment and Saban Enter ...

, and ''

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' is an American television sitcom created by Andy and Susan Borowitz that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The series stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart ...

''. He received a

Leo Award The Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry. Held each May or June in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Leo Awards were founded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British C ...

for his work on The New Addams Family. His writing credits are all with writing partner Arnold Rudnick. He started working in television in 1990 as a production assistant, later a writers assistant, on the series ''

A Different World ''A Different World'' is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of '' The Cosby Show''. It aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987, to July 9, 1993. The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable ( Lisa Bonet) an ...

''. His novels include books in the Raney/Daye Investigation series, co-written with Arnold Rudnick and Loyd Auerbach: ''Near Death'' (2020) ''After Life'' (2021) And a series of "everyman thrillers" From the Files of Eddie Horne: ''The Dead Kids Club'' (2021) ''The Tenth Ride'' (2021) He attended the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

campus where he majored in Computer Engineering. While there, he was a chimes player at

Altgeld Hall Altgeld Hall, located at 1409 West Green Street in Urbana, Illinois on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, campus, was built in 1896–97 and was designed by Nathan Ricker a ...

. He now works in information technology.

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