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 Besides his
extensive career in all media, Lloyd J. Schwartz and his father,
Sherwood Schwartz, are one of the only father-son producing teams in
television. Having been raised in a show-business family, the younger
Schwartz began his own career as a writer for Love American Style
and Alice and as part of a white/black comedy team while still in
college at UCLA. By that
time he had already been a dialogue coach on the series Gilligan's
Island. When that
position opened on The Brady Bunch, he signed on.
During the five-year run of that iconic series, Schwartz moved to
associate producer, director and producer.
At age 25, he was the youngest producer in network television. After The
Brady Bunch, Lloyd co-created and produced Big John, Little John,
a Saturday morning show for NBC. He
became a network executive at ABC and supervised four of the top five
shows in the country: Happy
Days, Laverne and Shirley, What's Happening!! and Three's
Company. Schwartz then became the producer of What's Happening!!
and co-created Harper Valley P.T.A. for television, followed by a
tenure as head of comedy development at Paramount TV. During these
years, there were always Gilligan and Brady projects.
Lloyd served as co-writer and executive producer of all the
variations of The Brady Bunch, including The Brady Girls Get
Married, The Brady Brides, A Very Brady Christmas and The
Bradys. He also
produced three Gilligan's Island TV movies:
Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on
Gilligan's Island and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's
Island. Both Rescue
from Gilligan's Island and A Very Brady Christmas were the
highest rated TV movies of their respective years.
Lloyd and Sherwood wrote Gilligan's Island:
The Musical for the stage which has had forty productions
nationally and internationally and will begin a national tour in 2009.
Words and music are by Hope and Laurence Juber.
Hope is Lloyd's sister, and he frequently writes with her.
Yet another
version of Gilligan was the high-rated The
Real Gilligan's Island for TBS for which Lloyd was co-creator and
executive producer. Completing a
Brady tour of the major networks, Lloyd was executive producer
and writer of the The Brady Bunch in the White House on Fox which
he co-wrote with Hope. Last
year, he received an Emmy nomination for Still Brady After All These
Years, the 35th Anniversary special.
Interspersed with all of his Brady and Gilligan
activities, he wrote the pilot for The Munsters Today and served as executive producer and wrote
episodes of The A Team, Alice, Baywatch, and other series. In the
feature world, Lloyd has produced The Brady Bunch Movie and A
Very Brady Sequel. He
has also written and produced his first independent feature, Good-Night
Jackie, and written and directed One Dozen, a feature based
on his stage play of the same name.
Lloyd has
had 32 produced plays. With
Wendell Burton, he co-wrote The Nearlyweds, considered the first
play specifically written for dinner theatre.
He won Valley Theatre League Awards for best comedy for Much a
Dieux and for best lyrics and book for his musical You & Me.
Two of his historical plays, The Great Adventure, about
Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and An Evening with John Wilkes
Booth, have enjoyed great acclaim. Lloyd has developed his John
Wilkes Booth play into a miniseries, which was sold to CBS as The
Brothers Booth. With Lloyd as executive producer, The
Great Adventure has been taped for KLCS and will soon be part of the
curriculum for the Los Angeles City School System.
His play for high schools, Final Exam, was a finalist in
the prestigious Beverly Hills Theatre League Awards and recently had its
world premiere at South El Monte High School. In October 2005, his play The
Phantom: Country Style had
its world premiere at the Centerstage Theatre Company in Birmingham,
Alabama. In June of
this year, A Very Brady Musical,
will debut at Theatre West. It
is co-written with Hope Juber, has words and music by Hope and Laurence
Juber, and is directed by Lloyd. With his
wife, Barbara, Lloyd co-founded The Storybook Theatre of Los Angeles
twenty-three years ago, and has written, composed, and/or directed all
17 of their original productions. He
has personally won 15 Valley Theatre League Awards for those shows, and
he and his wife have been honored by the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of
Representatives and the City of Los Angeles for their contributions to
the youth of Los Angeles as well as winning one of the inaugural Red
Carpet Awards from Women in Theatre.
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