Mitchell D. "Mitch" Hurwitz (born May 29, 1963) is an American
television writer, producer, and actor. He is best known as the
creator of the television sitcom Arrested Development as well as the
co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John
Larroquette Show and The Golden Girls.Hurwitz was born in 1963 to a
Jewish family in Anaheim, California. In 1976, when Hurwitz was 12, he
co-founded a chocolate-chip cookie business, called the Chipyard on
Balboa Boulevard in Balboa Fun Zone in Newport Beach, California, in a
former taco place, with his older brother, Michael, and his father,
Mark. The Chipyard is still in operation in Boston. He graduated from
Estancia High School in Costa Mesa, California, and from Georgetown
University in 1985 with a double major in English and theology.Hurwitz
worked on several sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s, including Nurses,
The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, The John Larroquette Show, The
Ellen Show and the Michael J. Fox-produced pilot Hench at Home. He
created Everything's Relative, a midseason comedy starring Jeffrey
Tambor and Jill Clayburgh for NBC in 1999.
television writer, producer, and actor. He is best known as the
creator of the television sitcom Arrested Development as well as the
co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John
Larroquette Show and The Golden Girls.Hurwitz was born in 1963 to a
Jewish family in Anaheim, California. In 1976, when Hurwitz was 12, he
co-founded a chocolate-chip cookie business, called the Chipyard on
Balboa Boulevard in Balboa Fun Zone in Newport Beach, California, in a
former taco place, with his older brother, Michael, and his father,
Mark. The Chipyard is still in operation in Boston. He graduated from
Estancia High School in Costa Mesa, California, and from Georgetown
University in 1985 with a double major in English and theology.Hurwitz
worked on several sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s, including Nurses,
The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, The John Larroquette Show, The
Ellen Show and the Michael J. Fox-produced pilot Hench at Home. He
created Everything's Relative, a midseason comedy starring Jeffrey
Tambor and Jill Clayburgh for NBC in 1999.
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