Jim Geoghan

Jim Geoghan is a television producer from the United States. He graduated from the New York Click to look into! >> Read More... Institute of Technology in 1969. Jim started his comedic career in 1973 when he joined the renowned New York comedy group Divided We Stand. Divided We Stand were regulars at the Improvisation Cafe and other New York clubs (The Bitter End, Catch A Rising Star, and The Bottom Line), but they spent most of their time touring universities and other nightclubs. The group appeared alongside many including, Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, The Commodores, Jimmy Buffet, The Righteous Brothers, Bill Withers, War, Sha Na Na, and The Temptations, to mention a few, at hundreds of universities in forty-seven states and Europe. Jim had the opportunity to write for television in Los Angeles in 1980. He moved to Hollywood with his actress wife, Annie Gagen. He wrote and produced popular television shows such as Silver Spoons, Punkey Brewster, Mama's Family, Three's Company, Sanford, The Facts of Life, Empire, Kate, and Allie, Too Close for Comfort, It's Gary Shandling's Show, Boys Will Be Boys, The Van Dyke Show, Amen, and Family Matters. For the Disney Channel, he co-created, and executive produced The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, which eventually became The Suite Life on Deck. The "Zack and Cody" series is set to begin its sixth season of unprecedented success. Jim has received two Emmy nominations for The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Jim is also a theatrical writer. Only Kidding, his critically praised show, played for 500 performances off-Broadway. Two Drama Desk Awards were nominated for the play. Light Sensitive, premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, was published by Samuel French and was presented in over forty productions around the United States. The play received nominations for the prestigious Jefferson Theatre Award in Chicago, seven Drama-Logue Awards in Los Angeles, an Ovation Award, and five Bay Area Critics' Awards. Two Gentlemen of Corona received its global debut at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles, where it received a LA Ovation Award. His play, "Triple Exposure," was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work in 1993 at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.