Kevin Shinick
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Kevin Thomas Shinick is an American actor
, producer, director and voice artist, as well as an Emmy and Annie award
winning writer who occasionally writes comic books. He played a role as the ACME Time Net Squadron Leader of the PBS series Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? and is the head writer and producer of MAD
, the animated sketch comedy series airing on Cartoon Network. He served as Creative Director of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, where he was also a writer and voice artist, and won a 2010 Emmy award for writing on the show's "Full-Assed Christmas Special."
suburb of Merrick
, New York
. He attended Sanford H. Calhoun High School
, along with fellow alumn Debbie Gibson, and continued onto nearby Hofstra University
where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in both theatre and communication.
cast him in his Broadway production of The Seagull opposite Ethan Hawke
, Laura Linney
, Tyne Daly
, Jon Voight
and Tony Roberts
. Subsequent Broadway plays followed, including Night Must Fall with Matthew Broderick
, The School For Scandal with Tony Randall, The Government Inspector with Lainie Kazan
and the Tony nominated productions of Timon of Athens and Saint Joan.
In 1996, Shinick began entertaining television audiences as the host and Squadron Leader of the Emmy award winning television series Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?, a popular PBS show which launched him into Teen Magazines, onto trading cards and into his own action figure. In 1998, Shinick appeared in Kenan & Kel
as the Bugman on "Attack of The Bugman".
In 2002, Shinick served as writer and director for the multi-million dollar production of Spider-Man Live!
- A Broadway-style adaptation of the famed comic book hero that played to large venues such as Radio City Music Hall
. The show embarked on a 40 city U.S. tour and has the distinction of being the country's first full length live-action stage show, based on the Marvel
comic book character.
In 2004, Shinick wrote, directed and starred in the feature film, It's About Time, an award winning romantic comedy in which Tony Randall makes his final appearance.
Shinick has appeared on numerous television shows and also spent two years as Head Writer for Nickelodeon's On Air Promo division. He has written and performed for shows on E!
, Spike TV, VH1
, Nickelodeon
and Adult Swim
, where he is a writer and voice actor for Seth Green
's Emmy winning animated sketch show - Robot Chicken
. The August 31, 2008 episode of Robot Chicken, "Tubba-Bubba's Now Hubba-Hubba" features a "Where in Time" storyline. And in season four, Shinick is credited with being Creative Director in addition to writing. He was nominated for a 2008 Emmy award
for his work as a writer on Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
, and won a 2008 Annie Award
for the same. In 2010, he won an Emmy award for writing on Robot Chicken's Full-Assed Christmas Special.
In 2010 he created the animated sketch series, MAD
, based on the iconic comedy magazine, with fellow producer
Mark Marek, which premiered on Cartoon Network on September 6, 2010. Shinick is credited as Head Writer, Producer and Voice Talent.
In 2009, Shinick contributed a story to DC Comics' annual "Batman 80-Page Giant" issue with art work by Rafa Garres. The story is entitled, "What Falls Below" and centers around the Batman villain, Mr. Freeze. Shinick followed this up in 2010 with a full-length story entitled "Joker's Asylum II: Clayface," with artwork by Kelley Jones.
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, producer, director and voice artist, as well as an Emmy and Annie award
Annie Award
The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...
winning writer who occasionally writes comic books. He played a role as the ACME Time Net Squadron Leader of the PBS series Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? and is the head writer and producer of MAD
Mad (TV series)
MAD is an American animated sketch comedy series created by Kevin Shinick and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Based upon the magazine of the same name, each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, movies, games, celebrities and other media using various types of...
, the animated sketch comedy series airing on Cartoon Network. He served as Creative Director of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, where he was also a writer and voice artist, and won a 2010 Emmy award for writing on the show's "Full-Assed Christmas Special."
Early life
Shinick was born in the Long IslandLong Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
suburb of Merrick
Merrick, New York
Merrick is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 22,097. The name "Merrick" is taken from Meroke, the name of the Algonquian tribe formerly indigenous to the area...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. He attended Sanford H. Calhoun High School
Sanford H. Calhoun High School
Sanford H. Calhoun High School is a high school located in Merrick, New York, United States. It is one of three high schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District...
, along with fellow alumn Debbie Gibson, and continued onto nearby Hofstra University
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car...
where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in both theatre and communication.
Career
A year after graduating college, Shinick received his first big job when legendary actor Tony RandallTony Randall
Tony Randall was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.-Early years:Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer...
cast him in his Broadway production of The Seagull opposite Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...
, Laura Linney
Laura Linney
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award...
, Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American stage and screen actress, widely known for her work as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in the television series Cagney & Lacey and as Maxine Gray in the television series Judging Amy. She is also known for her role as Alice Henderson in television series Christy...
, Jon Voight
Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie....
and Tony Roberts
Tony Roberts (actor)
David Anthony "Tony" Roberts is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in several Woody Allen movies, usually cast as Allen's best friend.-Early life:...
. Subsequent Broadway plays followed, including Night Must Fall with Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adult Simba in The Lion King film series, and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers.He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his...
, The School For Scandal with Tony Randall, The Government Inspector with Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer.-Personal life:Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Turkish Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole, whom Kazan has described as "neurotic, fragile and...
and the Tony nominated productions of Timon of Athens and Saint Joan.
In 1996, Shinick began entertaining television audiences as the host and Squadron Leader of the Emmy award winning television series Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?, a popular PBS show which launched him into Teen Magazines, onto trading cards and into his own action figure. In 1998, Shinick appeared in Kenan & Kel
Kenan & Kel
Kenan & Kel is an American teen sitcom produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions that originally aired on Nickelodeon from July 1996 to July 2000. The show starred friends and then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. Sixty-two episodes and a made-for-TV movie were produced over four...
as the Bugman on "Attack of The Bugman".
In 2002, Shinick served as writer and director for the multi-million dollar production of Spider-Man Live!
Spider-Man Live!
Spider-Man Live! - A Stunt Spectacular was the first full length, live-action stage show based on the Marvel comic book character, Spider-Man, to appear in the United States....
- A Broadway-style adaptation of the famed comic book hero that played to large venues such as Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city...
. The show embarked on a 40 city U.S. tour and has the distinction of being the country's first full length live-action stage show, based on the Marvel
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
comic book character.
In 2004, Shinick wrote, directed and starred in the feature film, It's About Time, an award winning romantic comedy in which Tony Randall makes his final appearance.
Shinick has appeared on numerous television shows and also spent two years as Head Writer for Nickelodeon's On Air Promo division. He has written and performed for shows on E!
E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
, Spike TV, VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
, Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
and Adult Swim
Adult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
, where he is a writer and voice actor for Seth Green
Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris...
's Emmy winning animated sketch show - Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...
. The August 31, 2008 episode of Robot Chicken, "Tubba-Bubba's Now Hubba-Hubba" features a "Where in Time" storyline. And in season four, Shinick is credited with being Creative Director in addition to writing. He was nominated for a 2008 Emmy award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
for his work as a writer on Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II is a 2008 episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken, and the sequel to the Annie Award winning Robot Chicken Star Wars, which aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block on November 16, 2008...
, and won a 2008 Annie Award
Annie Award
The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...
for the same. In 2010, he won an Emmy award for writing on Robot Chicken's Full-Assed Christmas Special.
In 2010 he created the animated sketch series, MAD
Mad (TV series)
MAD is an American animated sketch comedy series created by Kevin Shinick and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Based upon the magazine of the same name, each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, movies, games, celebrities and other media using various types of...
, based on the iconic comedy magazine, with fellow producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
Mark Marek, which premiered on Cartoon Network on September 6, 2010. Shinick is credited as Head Writer, Producer and Voice Talent.
In 2009, Shinick contributed a story to DC Comics' annual "Batman 80-Page Giant" issue with art work by Rafa Garres. The story is entitled, "What Falls Below" and centers around the Batman villain, Mr. Freeze. Shinick followed this up in 2010 with a full-length story entitled "Joker's Asylum II: Clayface," with artwork by Kelley Jones.