Bill Lawrence (producer) - Lawrence's Works

Lawrence's Works

Lawrence has been active since 1993 writing for Friends. He went on to write for Champs, writing the episodes "The Loop and Live" and "Live and Let Breathe". He co-created the popular ABC television show Spin City which lasted for six seasons. He wrote episodes "Pilot", "The Apartment", "Bye Bye Love", "Paul Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "The Paul Lassiter Story", "Goodbye (Part 2)", and co-wrote the series finale "A Friend in Need".

Then in 2001, he created Scrubs. He has written episodes "My First Day", "My Mentor", "My Nickname", "My Occurrence", "My Overkill", "My T.C.W.", "My Own American Girl", "My Catalyst", "My Changing Ways", "My Intern's Eyes", "My ABC's" and the season eight finale, "My Finale". He has also directed several episodes of the series, which include, "My Dream Job, "My Own American Girl", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "My Old Friend's New Friend, "My Intern's Eyes", "My Rite of Passage", "My Missed Perception", "My Transition", "My Turf War", "My Own Worst Enemy", "My Inconvenient Truth", "My Last Words", "My ABC's", "My Soul on Fire Parts 1 & 2", "My Finale", "Our First Day of School, as well as many uncredited rewrites.

In 2003, Lawrence created Clone High with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it only lasted for thirteen episodes and wrote Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand. His wife, Christa Miller, was cast in Clone High and voiced Cleopatra and several other minor characters.

In 2009, Lawrence co-created, wrote, produced and directed for the ABC sitcom Cougar Town which stars his wife Christa Miller as well as Courteney Cox who Lawrence wrote for on Friends and worked with during her appearances on Scrubs. Cox and her husband at the time David Arquette are also executive producers of the show. The show's fourth season will air in January 2013 on TBS. The show also stars Josh Hopkins, Busy Phillips, Dan Byrd, Brian Van Holt and Ian Gomez. Lawrence made a brief cameo as a policeman on the season three finale episode Into The Great Wide Open broadcast in 2012.

Lawrence credits the works of Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as having a large influence on his script writing.