Cort Casady

Cort Casady is an American television producer-writer. Born in McAllen, Texas, he grew up in San Diego, California and graduated from Harvard University prior to making his home in Los Angeles. He has won two Emmy Awards: a prime time Emmy for the American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award tribute to Mel Brooks (2014) and a New York Emmy for "New York at Night starring Clint Holmes," a daily, live, variety-talk series he created and executive produced (1992). He is also the winner of three NAACP Image Awards for televised concert tributes to Stevie Wonder (2007), Smokey Robinson (2009) and Lionel Richie (2011). Casady began his career as a writer by creating the original story and characters for the five-part TV mini-series, "Kenny Rogers as the Gambler" (1991, 1994). A veteran live broadcast and live event producer, Casady has produced dozens of music, variety, awards and reality specials and series including "Star Search" and television's first weekly environmental series, "Network Earth," which aired for five years on TBS. The father of triplets, his sons Braden and Jackson attend the University of Virginia, while his son, Carter, attends Cornell University. Casady lives with his wife, Barbara, an interior designer, in Manhattan Beach, California.