CSI: NEW YORK

Anthony E. Zuiker - Exec Producer / Creator CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY

Anthony E. Zuiker is the Emmy Award-nominated executive producer, co-creator and writer of CSI: NY. He is the creator of the hit television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and along with fellow CSI executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Ann Donahue also created and executive produces CSI: Miami.

In the fall, Zuiker will act as the co-show runner and executive producer for CSI: NY which enters its second season and stars Academy Award-nominee, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) and Emmy Award-nominee Melina Kanakaredes (Providence).

Zuiker also serves as Executive Producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Entering its sixth season in the fall, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has received widespread critical acclaim and has earned distinction as the highest rated drama on television. The show has earned three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series in addition to three Golden Globe nominations for Best Television Series - Drama.

Zuiker won the Silver Nitrate Award in 2004 at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards and was nominated twice as Television Producer of the Year - Episodic for the PGA Golden Laurel Awards. In 2004, he was honored with the Television Showman of the Year Award at the 42nd Annual Publicists Awards Luncheon.

Eight years ago, the aspiring writer worked as a tram driver at Las Vegas' famed Mirage Hotel and went on to have a movie produced before creating CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Zuiker's first feature script dealing with the subculture of Las Vegas sports betting, The Runner, was distributed in 1998 and starred Ron Eldard, Courtney Cox-Arquette, John Goodman and Joe Mantegna.

Following The Runner, Zuiker wrote Wanna-Be, which will be produced for Intermedia Films. He was hand picked to write the screenplay by actor Leonardo DiCaprio who was once attached to star in the film. Based on an article in New York Magazine entitled Hoodfellas, the film deals with the new generation of mall-rat mobsters.

He is currently rewriting The Harlem Globetrotters Story, about the start-up of the famous basketball team and their owner Abe Saperstein for Columbia Pictures. Penny Marshall is currently attached to direct the project.

Zuiker resides in Las Vegas and Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.