Ken LaZebnik

Ken LaZebnik writes for television, film and the theater. His work includes collaborating with Garrison Keillor on Robert Altman’s last film, A Prairie Home Companion, many years of writing for hour-long television dramas, and ten plays, two of which have won citations from The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA).

LaZebnik wrote the film Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage, which featured Peter O’Toole and Marcia Gay Harden, and was directed by Michael Campus. For television, he has written on series as varied as Touched By An Angel, Army Wives, When Calls The Heart, Providence, and Star Trek: Enterprise. During his seven-year tenure on Touched By An Angel, he wrote over twenty episodes. He wrote three PBS specials for their series “In Concert at the White House,” which were filmed in the East Room of the White House.

LaZebnik’s most recent play, On the Spectrum, was commissioned by The Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis in 2011 and was voted by the ATCA as one of the three best new plays premiered outside New York City. On The Spectrum premiered in Los Angeles in March of 2013, at the Fountain Theatre. Another of his plays about autism, Vestibular Sense, was also honored with an award from the ATCA at the Humana Festival in Louisville. His adaptation of a pioneer memoir, Rachel Calof, premiered as part of the New York International Fringe Theatre Festival in 2011, and stars Kate Fuglei as the Jewish pioneer settler.

LaZebnik has a long history of writing for Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” radio show, including such popular Keillor tapes as “A Visit To Mark Twain’s House.” He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Kate Fuglei, and their two sons.