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Winifred Hervey - Executive Producer
Emmy Award-winning Winifred Hervey is the creator and Executive Producer
of The Steve Harvey Show, on which she has served for five seasons. The
series recently won the prestigious 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding
Comedy Series.
Hervey began her career as staff writer at The Garry Marshall Company,
where she wrote for such primetime series as Laverne and Shirley,
Mork and Mindy and The New Odd Couple. She then
went on to work as writer on Benson and executive story consultant
for both of the hit series The Cosby Show and The Golden
Girls. She was later named producer of The Golden Girls,
for which she garnered two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding
Comedy Series and the Emmy Award in 1987.
Hervey served for two seasons as Executive Producer on the long-running
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In addition to The Steve Harvey
Show, Hervey created and served as Executive Producer for two years on
the comedy series In the House, starring L.L. Cool J.
Stan
Lathan - Executive Producer
Stan Lathan is both Executive Producer and a director on The Steve Harvey
Show.
He has an extensive list of diverse credits in both television and feature
films. Lathan began his career as a director of educational and public
affairs television series, most notably as a director during the early
years of Sesame Street and, then, a producer of Black
Journal. Among his many television credits are the series Its
Garry Shandlings Show, Hill Street Blues, Remington
Steele and Miami Vice. More recently, he directed the
pilots for Moesha and Martin, and was a producer
as well as director on the comedy series Roc, which was broadcast
live during its second season.
Lathan also directed the musical variety shows Don Kirshners
Rock Concert, Soul Train and several PBS dance specials
starring such greats as Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Alvin Ailey Dance
Company. In addition, he was producer and director of Def Comedy
Jam and Executive Producer of Dave Chappelle: Killin
Them Softly. Among his telefilms are Child Saver, Uncle
Toms Cabin and Go Tell It on The Mountain.
Lathans first feature projects as director were Save the Children
in 1973, a music documentary filmed at Jesse Jacksons Operation
PUSH, and Amazing Grace. He returned to feature films again
in 1984 to direct "Beat Street," one of the first mainstream
features to focus on the hip-hop phenomenon of breakdance and rap music.
He also executive produced the features Gridlockd and
How to be a Player.
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