Anthony E. Zuiker (born August 17, 1968) is the creator and executive producer of the American television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, . He produces all three editions of the CSI franchise: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. He also assisted in the writing of Terminator Salvation.

Contents 1 Personal 2 Awards/Nominations 3 Books 4 Philanthropy 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Personal

Zuiker was born in Blue Island, Illinois, but his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Zuiker attended Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona for three years and then transferred the University of La Verne in La Verne, CA, before transferring to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where he graduated. During all four years he was involved in competitive forensics, advancing as far as semifinals at the national speech tournament.

At the University of La Verne he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His big brother in the fraternity was Lowell Johnson of Norman, OK.

In a talk at the International Mystery Writers Festival in June 2008, Zuiker said that he was working as a tram driver in Las Vegas when he came up with the idea for the series. He said he was about to go out to play basketball with some friends when his wife asked him to stay in and watch The New Detectives on the Discovery Channel. "I decided to stay, and that changed everything". He also freely admitted that he knew nothing about writing for TV and therefore his pilot script "broke all the rules," thereby creating the programs' characteristic visual and storytelling styles.

[edit] Awards/Nominations

On October 25, 2007, he received the Big Brother Award Austria 2007 in the category of communication and marketing. The jury stated among other things, "The CSI television series present computer surveillance, DNA-analysis and the overthrow of civil rights in an uncritical, trivialized and dangerously onesided kind of way". Furthermore the rights of people in general and the suspects in particular would be pictured primarily as impediments of investigations.

[edit] Books

On September 8th, 2009 Zuicker released Level 26: Dark Origins, a book with associated web-based motion picture and interactive elements which he terms a "digi-novel." Zuicker has produced 20 cinematic cyber-bridges, which readers will be prompted to view online using special codes embedded in the book's text every 20 pages or so. The Level26.com website and online community was created with the help of Miles Beckett, the creator of hit faux vlogger Lonelygirl 15. "I wanted to tell a story 'too hot' for television while at the same time giving the existing crime reader a different experience^[1]," says Zuiker. A further two Level 26 books are currently planned, which will be released in 2010 and 2011.

[edit] Philanthropy

A new school theater is named after him: the Anthony E. Zuiker Theater at the Chaparral High School (Nevada). Mr. Zuiker was a 1986 graduate of this high school.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Anthony E. Zuiker at the Internet Movie Database

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