Anthony E. Zuiker

Anthony E. Zuiker

Anthony E. Zuiker in 2010
Born (1968-08-17) August 17, 1968
Blue Island, Illinois, United States
Occupation Producer
Spouse(s) Michelle Zuiker
Children 3

Anthony E. Zuiker (pronounced /ˈzaɪkər/;[1] born August 17, 1968) is the creator and executive producer of the American television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He produces all four editions of the CSI franchise: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and CSI: Cyber. Besides his work on CSI, he created the murder mystery show Whodunnit? with Chris Abrego for ABC. Zuiker was also the creator of Cybergeddon for Yahoo!. He received a 2013 Pioneer Award from the International Digital Emmy Awards for Cybergeddon. In 2011, he launched BlackBox TV for YouTube. He also assisted in the writing of Terminator Salvation. Most recently, Zuiker launched his first animated series for kids "Mysteryopolis" on nabi tablets.[2]

Life and career

Zuiker was born in Blue Island, Illinois, in the same hospital as CSI: NY star Gary Sinise.[3] When he was six months old, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where his mother, Diana, worked as a blackjack dealer, and his father as a maître d'.[3][4] Zuiker attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, for three years and then transferred to the University of La Verne in La Verne, California, before transferring to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he graduated. During all four years he was involved in competitive forensics, advancing as far as semifinals at the national speech tournament.

In a talk at the International Mystery Writers Festival in June 2008, Zuiker said that he was working as a tram driver in Las Vegas when he came up with the idea for the series. He said he was about to go out to play basketball with some friends when his first wife asked him to stay in and watch The New Detectives on the Discovery Channel. "I decided to stay, and that changed everything". He also freely admitted that he knew nothing about writing for TV and therefore his pilot script "broke all the rules," thereby creating the programs' characteristic visual and storytelling styles. He also attended Chaparral High School which is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The picture of the theatre is the school theatre at Chaparral High.

Zuiker has three children. In 2013, he married Michelle Territo, now Michelle Zuiker.

Criticism

On October 25, 2007, he received the Big Brother Award Austria 2007 in the category of communication and marketing. The jury[5] stated among other things, "The CSI television series present computer surveillance, DNA-analysis and the overthrow of civil rights in an uncritical, trivialized and dangerously onesided kind of way". Furthermore, the rights of people in general and the suspects in particular would be pictured primarily as impediments of investigations.

Books

On September 8, 2009, Zuiker released Level 26: Dark Origins, a book with associated web-based motion picture and interactive elements which he terms a "digi-novel".[6] Zuiker has produced 20 cinematic cyber-bridges, which readers will be prompted to view online using special codes embedded in the book's text every 20 pages or so. The Level26.com website and online community was created with the help of Miles Beckett, the creator of hit faux vlogger lonelygirl15. "I wanted to tell a story 'too hot' for television while at the same time giving the existing crime reader a different experience,[7]" says Zuiker.

On October 14, 2010, Level 26: Dark Prophecy was released and a third Level 26 book was released in 2011; it was also released as an iPad application,[8][9] which was designed and developed by Hooray.

Sqweegel, the forensic-proof serial killer from the first Level 26 novel, appeared in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Zuiker released a personal memor in 2011,"Mr. CSI: How A Vegas Dreamer Made A Killing In Hollywood, One Body At A Time" (Harper Collins). He is also the author of Whodunnit?: Murder in Mystery Manor (Hyperion).

Philanthropy

A new school theater is named after him: the Anthony E. Zuiker Theater at the Chaparral High School (Nevada). Zuiker is a 1986 graduate of this high school.

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