Steven Kunes (American screenwriter) was born on September 7, 1956 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and attended New York University where he graduated summa cum laude with B.A. degrees in Creative Writing and Comparative Literature in 1978. After much success writing short stories and non-fiction articles for national publications, TV legend Norman Lear hired Kunes to write and develop half-hour comedies for his company, Embassy Television. This led to assignments in the area of one-hour TV and eventually took him to motion pictures, where Kunes became one of Hollywood's most successful (albeit unknown) script doctors, working on 10 of the most popular films in the last two decades, including Rain Man, Groundhog Day, The Pelican Brief, Wag The Dog, Legally Blonde, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Atlas Shrugged:Part I and The Theory of Everything. At present, Kunes continues to accept movie assignments, write stage plays (including an adaptation of Carson McCullers' final novel, \Clock Without Hands\) and, in 2016, he sold the comedy series \Over My Dead Body\ to YouTube Red for $8 million. Kunes resides in Los Angeles. Executive Producer