Ken grew up on the East Coast, where he actively participated in multiple sports, eventually being offered a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants before an injury curtailed any athletic possibilities.
As he looked at life through an oblique lens, Ken started writing comedy material in high school for popular stand-up comedians, which did not go unnoticed by Jerry Seinfeld's manager, George Shapiro. George admired Ken's freewheeling comedy mind and encouraged him to write scripts. Interestingly, it was George and his partner, Howard West, Seinfeld producers, who subsequently represented Ken and were directly involved in negotiations with CAA, Brian Grazer, and Francie Calfo, President of Imagine TV, for Ken's comedy pilot script to be put under the Shapiro/West banner.
A Newhart episode Ken co-wrote aired on TV when he was going to college and appearing as a panelist on William F. Buckley Jr.'s television show, "Firing Line." It was his first script sale, and the first person he called to celebrate with was George.
Learning to rein in his surrealistic writing impulses to fit a more conventional template, Ken moved on to pen numerous TV comedies, TV network pilots, TV movies, and feature films. Selling his initial feature film to Warners with eventual rewrites unfortunately prevented him from following up on his "Cheese Story," a pitched Seinfeld episode Larry David asked him to write.
Through this period, he had overall deals at Viacom and Disney to write and produce, and later an office at Universal, where he worked on projects for the legendary Mike Medavoy, Bruce Berman, Tom Lassally, Laura Ziskin, and Steve Stark, as well as being regularly employed as a script doctor.
Recently, Ken wrote an original screenplay for Margaret French Isaac, President of DiNovi Pictures. It is the fourth time Ken has worked with Margaret. Previously diverted into a number of pedestrian projects, Ken feels he is now back to writing the kind of inspired material he initially wanted to do when he was discovered by George Shapiro.
By the way, he also takes solace in knowing he has good friends like Jay Leno, Nicole Fox, Richard Arlook, and before their passing, Bob Saget and Richard Lewis. He called Bob his older, wiser brother, who always had his back, and Richard one of his closest friends. Ken has kept all of the texts and emails from Bob and Richard and considers them a calming presence in his life. He even held on to a funny, rambling 30-minute answering machine message once left by Richard. In fact, Richard was still talking when the tape ran out...
Due to a female stalker and a DMV scandal involving identity theft, where Ken and others were victims of online misinformation, Ken was advised to restrict contact information and some personal details from the Bio.
