Patric Verrone

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Patric Verrone
Born:	September 29, 1959 Glendale, Queens, New York
Occupation:	President of Writers Guild of America, West, Television writer
Nationality:	United States

Patric Verrone (born Patric Miller Verrone on September 29, 1959 in Glendale, Queens, New York) is an American television writer. He served as a writer and producer for several animated television shows, most notably Futurama.

1 Schooling and pre-television career
2 Career in television
- 2.1 The Critic
- 2.2 Futurama
3 Writers Guild of America
4 Personal life
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Schooling and pre-television career

Verrone graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He graduated from Boston College Law School in 1984 after serving as editor of the Boston College Law Review. He practiced law in Florida and California before becoming a television writer.

[edit] Career in television

Patric Verrone began his career as a variety show writer including a late 1980s job as monologue writer for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.^[1] Shortly after his work on The Tonight Show, Patric went to write on the popular animated program Rugrats in 1991. From there, Verrone would work for the entirety of The Critic's run on television, before then moving on to write for Muppets Tonight (with which he won an Emmy^[2]) and Pinky and the Brain. Eventually, Patric, would become a major contributor for Futurama. Following his work on the Futurama series, Verrone has written an episode of The Simpsons (Milhouse of Sand and Fog (2005)), developed the Cartoon Network series Class of 3000 (including writing the pilot episode Home (2006)), and worked on the Futurama movies scheduled to be released starting in late 2007.

[edit] The Critic

While editor of The Harvard Lampoon, Verrone had met two writers by the name of Al Jean and Mike Reiss. Jean and Reiss, who had just served as co-show runners for The Simpsons, were creating a new animated show called The Critic. They asked Verrone to work on it and, as he says, "I could hardly refuse".^[3]

While working on two seasons of The Critic Verrone would serve as co-producer and writer of three episodes.

Writing credits on The Critic:

A Pig Boy and His Dog
All the Duke's Men
I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show

[edit] Futurama

Verrone's work on Futurama would last five years and garner him perhaps his highest recognition in the form of two award nominations. He would serve as producer on 59 episodes while writing 7.

Writing credits on Futurama episodes:

"A Fishful of Dollars"
"I Second That Emotion"
"Put Your Head on My Shoulder"
"A Clone of My Own"
"The Problem with Popplers"
"That's Lobstertainment!"
"A Leela of Her Own"
"The Sting" (for which Verrone was nominated for both an Annie Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production and a WGA award for Television Animation Screenplay)^[4]

[edit] Writers Guild of America

On October 23, 2002, The Animation Writers Caucus (AWC) of the Writers Guild of America awarded Patric Verrone a Lifetime Achievement honor of the Animation Writing Award.^[5]

In 2005, Verrone was elected President of the Writers Guild of America, West with an overwhelming 68% of the vote, after pledging to devote up to 30% of the Guild's budget to organizing writers in reality television, animation, cable, and independent film. He had previously served as secretary-treasurer for the organization.^[6]

[edit] Personal life

In 1989, Verrone married television writer and novelist, Maiya Williams. The two of them have 3 children.^[7]

In his spare time, Verrone makes and sells miniature figurines of U.S. presidents and other notable persons. The figurines are replicas of those sold by the Marx toy company in the 1950s and 1960s.