Alan Shayne

ALAN SHAYNE was the President of Warner Brothers Television for many years, shepherding hit shows including Alice, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Wonder Woman, Growing Pains, and The Dukes of Hazard. He began his career as an actor on Broadway and became awell-known casting director of TV and films such as All the President's Men. He produced TV specials and, after leaving Warners, received an Emmy nomination for producing the mini-series The Bourne Identity.THE STAR DRESSING ROOM is his...See more

ALAN SHAYNE was the President of Warner Brothers Television for many years, shepherding hit shows including Alice, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Wonder Woman, Growing Pains, and The Dukes of Hazard. He began his career as an actor on Broadway and became awell-known casting director of TV and films such as All the President's Men. He produced TV specials and, after leaving Warners, received an Emmy nomination for producing the mini-series The Bourne Identity.THE STAR DRESSING ROOM is his third memoir. Shayne's dual autobiography with his husband Norman Sunshine, DOUBLE LIFE: A LOVE STORY was published to great acclaim in 2011. Published in 2020, THE RAIN MUST PASS recounts his experiences as a teenager in New England. Alan connects on Cape Cod with a man twice his age in the summer of 1941 and learns more about himself than he ever imagined possible. Shayne and Sunshine also collaborated on the children's Christmas story, THE MINSTREL TREE in 2001. Shayne's mystery/romance novel, FINDING SYLVIA set in Hollywood, Connecticut and around the world, was published in October 2017. He now lives in Palm Beach. See less