Marco Pennette, American Scriptwriter. Avocations: tennis, racquetball.
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Background
Pennette was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut where he grew up loving theatre: "I want to go into theatre. television sort of lured me away." He attended New York University where he studied at the Tisch School of the Arts and as a student was a finalist in the Young Playwrights Festival.
Education
Student, New York University, 1984-1987.
Career
He intended to pursue a career in Broadway theatre but sold his first television script to Kate & Allie and dropped out of university and moved to Los Angeles to pursue television writing. Pennette"s career began on the sitcom Kate & Allie from where he moved on to other projects including Dave"s World and Dear John. He went on to create and write for many of his own series: Caroline in the City, Union Square, Conrad Bloom and All About the Andersons.
Most notably, though, were the short-lived medical drama Inconceivable co-created with Oliver Goldstick, inspired by both of their surrogate pregnancy experiences, and the short-lived midseason sitcom Crumbs, an autobiographical portrayal of his family experiences and closeted young adulthood.
His other writing and producing work from 2003 onwards includes serving as executive producer and co-executive producer on the television series I"m with Her and the sitcom What I Like About You, for both of which he also wrote a number of episodes. He also wrote the script for and an the executive producer of the 2007 Football Wives pilot, which was originally intended to be a television series but was later declined by the American Broadcasting Company in favour of seven other pilots with lower budgets, as the American Broadcasting Company claimed that the pitched budget for Football Wives was too high for a midseason pick-up.
The series was set to be a United States. version of the popular British soap opera Football players" Wives. Ugly Betty"s creator and other showrunner Silvio Horta was named AfterElton.com"s Manitoba of the Year for 2007 for the show"s positive portrayal of LGBT issues—including a possibly gay teenager, a transgender man-turned-woman and a gay male assistant with a homophobic mother—and had to say about Pennette, also gay: "Marco Pennette, my co-showrunner and Executive Producer, deserves a special thanks here too.
He is an Most Valuable Player of comedy, and a big part of Ugly Betty"s gay sensibility." On February 11, 2008, American Broadcasting Company picked up Ugly Betty for the 2008-2009 television season, but on the day the renewal was announced, Pennette, along with fellow executive producer James Hayman, were let go.
The departures of Pennette and Hayman added to the constant turnovers on the series off-camera, which has so far seen five writers having exited or been fired. In August 2012, Pannette became showrunner of Animal Practice, replacing Gail Lerner after the third episode had been shot. Personal life
His own family experiences were the basis for his sitcom Crumbs.
His brother"s drowning, his mother"s institutionalization and his father"s impregnation of another woman.
Membership
He was a member of the writing panel and an executive producer/co-showrunner on the dramedy series Ugly Betty, initially having been a co-executive producer.
Personality
He is a good friend of Broadway theatre spokesman Seth Rudetsky, having hired him previously to write a song for a character in his sitcom Caroline in the City—an Internal Revenue Service employee auditioning for the musical Cats.