Bryce Zabel

Bryce H. Zabel (born May 17, 1954) is an American television producer, director, writer, and occasional actor. With hundreds of hours of produced film and television credits, Zabel has scripted a trio of mini-series which aired in the U.S. He also coauthored a book titled AD: After Disclosure, with prominent UFOlogist Richard Dolan. His mini-series include the medical thriller Pandemic (2007, Hallmark), the pirate adventure Blackbeard (2006, Hallmark), and the disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure (2005, NBC). Education Zabel attended Hillsboro High School in Hillsboro, Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Oregon in Eugene. After graduation, Zabel stayed in Eugene and worked at television station KVAL-TV and radio station KZEL-FM. As an adjunct professor, he taught a graduate-level class on Producing at the University of Southern California (2006–07). He was also a CNN correspondent. Career In television, Zabel was showrunner (creator or developer/producer/writer) on the UFO-conspiracy series Dark Skies from 1996–1997, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven from 1998–1999, and the Fox African-American superhero series M.A.N.T.I.S. from 1994-1995. He also wrote and produced on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1994), and The Fifth Corner (1992). Zabel was the lead writer and a producer on 2009's Animal Armageddon, an eight-part non-fiction miniseries for Animal Planet. It deals with mass extinction events. The screenplay written by Bryce and Jackie Zabel, Miles From Nowhere completed filming in Los Angeles in the summer of 2008. It is the story of a high school athlete who decides to try for a sub-four-minute mile to deal with the death of a friend. The film stars Treat Williams. As a feature film writer, Zabel has received writing credit on Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). He also wrote the first SyFy ("Sci-Fi Channel"" at the time) original TV film, Official Denial (1993).