Eric Gurian

Eric Andrew Gurian is an American film and television producer, director and writer. He is currently the President of Tina Fey's production company Little Stranger.

Eric Gurian
BornDecember 10
West Caldwell, New Jersey
Alma materSyracuse University
OccupationTelevision/Film producer, director, and writer
Years active2004–present

Career

Eric Gurian is a sixteen-time Emmy nominated producer and two-time Producers Guild Award winner.[1] He was also part of the producing team which was honored with the Peabody Award in 2007. His credits include 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Saturday Night Live, Sisters, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Busy Tonight, and Baby Mama.[2] He began his career as an NBC Page after graduating from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Gurian is on the board of the Newhouse 44 at Syracuse University[3] and previously on the board of the Innovators Guild at the University Settlement House in New York City. He is a frequent adjunct professor at New York University at the Tisch School of the Arts.

Charitable Work

Gurian is politically active and has supported many philanthropies including the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital. On March 31, 2017 he founded Stand For Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU [4] as a telethon for Facebook Live. The benefit drew talent including Tom Hanks, Usher, Norah Jones, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and more. It received an Emmy nomination, which was the first of its kind for Facebook.[5]

References
  1. "Emmys.tv".
  2. "IMDB".
  3. "Newhouse 44". Archived from the original on 2014-08-20.
  4. "Stand For Rights".
  5. "Stand For Rights Emmys".
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