Everything Old is New Again: David Schulner

Emerald City On NBC

When a tornado transports Dorothy Gale from Lucas, Kan., to the faraway land of Oz, her arrival sets in motion a prophecy about a disastrous event known as The Beast Forever and strikes fear into the land\'s almighty ruler, the Wizard.

David Schulner

David Schulner serves as an executive producer and writer on NBC’s epic new drama series “Emerald City.”

Schulner started his television career on Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz’s beloved series “Once and Again,” starring Sela Ward and Billy Campbell. His other credits include the celebrated first year of “Desperate Housewives,” “Everwood,” “Kings,” “Tell Me You Love Me” and “Do No Harm,” which he created and was showrunner.

His 2008 spec script “The Oaks” started a bidding war between CBS, ABC and Fox, ultimately being picked up straight to series by Fox. Then the writers’ strike happened. ITV in Great Britain successfully relaunched the show as the critically acclaimed series “Marchlands,” followed by season two “Lightfields.”

As a playwright, Schulner’s plays have been produced Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater, the Old Globe, Long Wharf Theater and at Sundance.

Schulner is also the creator of CLONE, a popular ongoing comic published by Image/Skybound, which is Robert Kirkman’s (“The Walking Dead”) imprint.

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