Education
University of Southern California.
University of Southern California.
He is best known for directing the sitcoms Archie Bunker"s Place, Night Court and The Golden Girls. He has directed and produced over 40 shows and movies. Before venturing into Hollywood films and television, Shimokawa taught on the junior high and high school level in Los Angeles, and wrote on the Gardena Valley News, a local bi-weekly paper, as the Sports and Entertainment editors
In television, he has directed and produced shows for over 35 years (primarily half-hour multi-cam comedy shows for prime-time and cable) totaling over 600 episodes.
He also co-wrote a comedy pilot for Nickelodeon cable television network. Shimowaka holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Southern California ( University of Southern California) in Comparative Literature.
Shimokawa also served as an Adjunct Professor at University of Southern California for two years in the graduate film and television program and was also an Adjunct Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University in undergraduate television He presently serves as a visiting professor at New York University"s Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.