Christopher Keyser

Background

Keyser was born on Long Island, New New York

Education

He attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He went on to Harvard Law School, from which he graduated with honors and received offers of employment from various New York City law firms.

Career

He is best known for creating the television series Party of Five. In college, he was the president of the Harvard University Debate Council. Keyser became involved in theater during his last two years at Harvard College, appearing in a number of theatrical productions.

While in New York City, Keyser and Lippman formed a writing partnership.

In 1988, Keyser and Lippman moved to Los Angeles, California and were signed on to write teleplays for Los Angeles Law and Equal Justice. From 1991 to 1996, they also wrote for and produced the shows Sisters and Eddie Dodd.

They became known as an established team in the television business. The two are best known for the Fox series Party of Five, a primetime family-oriented soap opera.

The show deals with issues involving relationships, romance, school, work, growing-up, and life and death.

Both Keyser and Lippman are credited as the creators, executive producers, and writers of the series. The show lasted six seasons. Neve Campbell (who got her breakout role on the show) has referred to the show as "the most realistic show on television" Eventually, ratings waned and the show came to an education

The team of Keyser/Lippman has continued to develop television programs such as Significant Others and Time of Your Life (a spin-off of Party of Five starring Love Hewitt"s character Sarah leaving San Francisco in favor of New York and searching for the biological family she never even knew she had).

In October 2013, it was announced that Keyser and Sydney Sidner were writing the script for a reboot of Charmed, which was in development at Columbia Broadcasting System. Keyser and Sidner were also going to executive produce the reboot alongside Columbia Broadcasting System Television Studios and The Tannenbaum Company. However, in August 2014, it was revealed that Columbia Broadcasting System were not going ahead with the reboot.

Since 2009, he has been president of the Writers Guild of America, West.

Achievements

• In 1996, the show took home the Golden Globe Award for "Best Drama Series." Keyser (along with Lippman) received the Humanitas Prize for the episode "Thanksgiving", where the Salingers wound up confronting the mysterious drunk driver that was responsible for their parent"s deaths.

Connections

Partner:

Amy Lippman