Steven Molaro (born February 16, 1972) is an American television producer and writer. He has worked on such productions as ''
Freddie'', ''
The Class'', ''
Complete Savages
''Complete Savages'' is an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from September 24, 2004, to June 17, 2005. It was part of ABC's first attempt to renew its TGIF block since the original came to an end in 2000. The show was created by Mike ...
'',
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first ca ...
's ''
All That
''All That'' is an American sketch comedy children's television series created by Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin. The series originally aired on Nickelodeon from April 16, 1994, to October 22, 2005, lasting ten seasons, and was produced by Tol ...
'', ''
The Amanda Show
''The Amanda Show'' is an American sketch comedy and variety show television series created by Dan Schneider and starring Amanda Bynes that aired on Nickelodeon from October 16, 1999, to September 21, 2002. A spin-off of '' All That'', ano ...
'', ''
Drake & Josh
''Drake & Josh'' is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows teenage stepbrothers Drake Parker (Drake Bell) and Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) as they live together despite their opposite personalities. Na ...
'', ''
Zoey 101
''Zoey 101'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. It aired from January 9, 2005, to May 2, 2008, spanning a total of 61 episodes across four seasons.
It focuses on the lives of Zoey Brooks ( J ...
'' and ''
iCarly
''iCarly'' is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider, which originally aired on Nickelodeon from September 8, 2007, to November 23, 2012. The series tells the story of Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove), a teenager who creates and hosts ...
'' and
The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, stylized as "THE WB", and nicknamed the "Frog Network" and/or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network that ran from 1995 to 2006. It launched on ter ...
's ''
What I Like About You''. From 2007 to 2019, he was a producer/writer on the sitcom ''
The Big Bang Theory
''The Big Bang Theory'' is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady for CBS. It aired from September 24, 2007, to May 16, 2019, running for 12 seasons and 279 episodes.
The show originally centered on five charact ...
''. Molaro also co-created its prequel spinoff, ''
Young Sheldon
''Young Sheldon'' is an American sitcom television series created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro which aired on CBS from September 25, 2017, to May 16, 2024. The series is a Spin-off (media), spin-off prequel to ''The Big Bang Theory'' that ...
'', with
Chuck Lorre
Charles Michael Lorre ( ; né Levine; born October 18, 1952) is an American television producer, writer, director, and composer. Nicknamed the "King of Sitcoms", Lorre has created/co-created and produced many sitcoms including '' Cybill'' (199 ...
.
In 2007, he created a
troll
A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human bei ...
pizza delivery
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order, the "
None Pizza with Left Beef".
He is a native of Queens, New York.
Molaro has been nominated for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
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two times along with fellow writers
Chuck Lorre
Charles Michael Lorre ( ; né Levine; born October 18, 1952) is an American television producer, writer, director, and composer. Nicknamed the "King of Sitcoms", Lorre has created/co-created and produced many sitcoms including '' Cybill'' (199 ...
and
Bill Prady
William Scott Prady (born June 7, 1960) is an American television writer and producer known for co-creating and producing '' The Big Bang Theory'' (2007–2019) and '' The Muppets'' (2015–2016). He also served as an executive producer on '' D ...
, in 2011 and 2012. He also shared the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy, with Lorre, Prady and ''The Big Bang Theory'' editor
Faye Oshima Belyeu
Faye Oshima Belyeu is an American television producer.
Career
Oshima Belyeu produced the situation comedies '' True Colors'' ( Fox) from 1990 to 1992, '' Dave's World'' (CBS) from 1993 to 1995, and ''Caroline in the City'' (NBC) from 1995 to 19 ...
, in 2012 and 2013.
Until April 2011, Molaro authored the blog ''
The Sneeze''.
Television credits
References
External links
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1972 births
American male television writers
American showrunners
American television writers
Living people
Nickelodeon people
Screenwriters from New York City
Television producers from Queens, New York
American television show creators
Writers from Queens, New York
21st-century American screenwriters
21st-century American male writers