Bill Lawrence (producer)

Career

After graduating from the College of William & Mary, Lawrence wrote for hit shows including Friends, Boy Meets World, and The Nanny and produced the animated series Clone High. He is also the creator of the sitcoms Spin City and his current venture, Scrubs, which has finished six of its seven seasons on NBC. He is also one of the producers of the rejected television pilot Nobody's Watching. In 2006/2007 he was prepping the film "Fletch Won" (which is a prequel to the previous Fletch films), but after Scrubs star Zach Braff dropped out, Bill Lawrence then soon after dropped out as well.

Along with many Scrubs cast members, Bill Lawrence also has a small role playing himself in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie in a scene with Miss Piggy.

In a season six episode of Scrubs, Bill appeared as an extra in the coffee shop.

Bill is married to Christa Miller, and they have three children: Charlotte Sarah, born on June 8 2000; William Stoddard, born on January 3 2003; and Henry Vanduzer, born on October 8 2006.

2005 TV Pilot that was never picked up. (Co-written with Scrubs writers Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan)''

Bill Lawrence is a huge fan of The Simpsons and said in interviews that Scrubs is intended to be like a live-action Simpsons. For example, in one episode of Scrubs, J.D. comments that Grey's Anatomy is a little like their lives. The same thing was noted in a Simpsons episode regarding Dinosaurs.
Bill Lawrence is a member of Kappa Alpha Order.