Allan Neuwirth

ALLAN NEUWIRTH is a native New Yorker who writes, produces, directs, and designs for a wide variety of media, with a strong emphasis on comedy. Profiled in “WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD,” he's the author, developer, designer, and creator of TV series, films, books (both fiction and non fiction), a syndicated comic strip, comic books & graphic novels, toys, games, CD-Roms and award-winning animated TV commercials.

Some of Allan's recent projects: developed “TIKI & RONDE,” a TV series about the adventures and coming of age of NFL superstars (and identical twin brothers) Tiki and Ronde Barber in Roanoke, Virginia in the 1980s (On Screen Entertainment, 2006);  staff writer on the new animated series “WORD WORLD” (PBS) and National Geographic's “MAMA MIRABELLE’S HOME MOVIES” (BBC), a live action & animated series about animals and nature (2006); produced and directed “ABBALICIOUS,” a musical comedy/documentary feature film which chronicles a multimedia project featuring famous drag performers reinterpreting hit ABBA songs (Figjam Productions, 2006);  co-development of the Disney classic “THE ARISTOCATS” as a TV series for Walt Disney Television Animation (2003);  “FIX and FOXI,” a cartoon TV show based on creator Rolf Kauka’s famous comic book series which Allan head wrote for the BBC and European television (Ravensburger TV, 2000). Allan continued as Supervising Producer of “FIX and FOXI” in Sydney, Australia during the summer of 2001.

His new oral history book, “THEY’LL NEVER PUT THAT ON THE AIR” (2006), takes an inside look at the world of TV comedy, the breaking down of television’s many taboos, and how the medium has grown up since the 1960s. His acclaimed first book, “MAKIN’ TOONS” (2003), examines the creators and creations of the “toon boom,” the most popular animated TV shows and movies since the late ‘80s.

Other projects of note include the critically hailed TV show from Sesame Workshop & Jim Henson Productions, “BIG BAG” (Cartoon Network), which he co-developed, and whose dozens of animated shorts he head wrote and associate produced; Jim Henson Productions' “WUBBULOUS WORLD OF DR. SEUSS” (Nickelodeon), which garnered Neuwirth and co-writer Gary Cooper a nomination for a Writer's Guild Award in 1998; development and co-writing of every episode of the multiple-award winning claymation cartoon show, “KOKI”; multiple episodes for series including “COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG” (Cartoon Network), “GADGET & THE GADGETINIS” (Fox Family), “DRAGON TALES” (PBS), “STEVEN SPIELBERG’S TOONSYLVANIA” (Fox Kids), and many other projects, including the original feature film story of “HAUNTED HACIENDA” (Warner Bros. Animation). In 1998, with illustrator/writer Glen Hanson (designer of MTV’s “SPY GROOVE”), Allan co-created the popular comic strip “CHELSEA BOYS,” currently syndicated in dozens of publications and websites all across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 2003, Alyson Books published the first “Chelsea Boys” collection, and a SoHo gallery showcased much of the original artwork in October/November 2003. Their second hardbound & full color “Chelsea Boys” collection (Bruno Gmünder Books) hit stores October 2006. In 2001, Allan co-authored a well-reviewed RealWorlds graphic novel for DC Comics, “WONDER WOMAN vs. THE RED MENACE,” illustrated by Salgood Sam.