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American screenwriter
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Male
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26 October 1949(New York City, New York, United States)
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University of Miami
Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, United States
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Biography
David Alan Isaacs (born October 16, 1949) is an American screenwriter and producer. He has written episodes of M*A*S*H, Cheers, its spin-off Frasier, and The Simpsons with Ken Levine.
Isaacs became a consulting producer and writer for the AMC television drama Mad Men for the show's second season. He won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the second season.
He is currently a professor and chair of the writing division at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he teaches comedy and screenwriting.