November 3, 1994: Vol26n9: Emmy-winning screen writer Alan Zxeibel to visit UB

Alan Zweibel, the Emmy-award-winning screen writer, producer and
comedy writer, will be on the UB campus Friday and Saturday conducting
student workshops and taking part in Center for the Arts Grand Opening
events.
	Zweibel, a 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UB, recently
co-produced the comedy "North" with Rob Reiner and is the author of
Bunny, Bunny, a memoir of his longtime relationship with the late
comedian Gilda Radner. Royalties from the book are being donated to
Gilda's Club, a free support center for cancer patients and their
families.
	Zweibel was producer, writer and co-creator of the "It's the
Gary Shandling Show" and before that, spent five years as senior
writer for the original "Saturday Night Live," where he created the
character Roseanne Rosannadanna with Gilda Radner, co-developed "Not
Necessarily the News," and contributed to the late John Belushi's
samurai act.
	He began his professional career selling jokes to the "Tonight
Show" and "Dick Cavett" while still a student at UB. He later wrote
for many comedians including Steve Martin, Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy
Chase, Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd. He was a recent guest on the "David
Letterman Show."
	Zweibel's workshops on "The Making of a Career in Hollywood"
will be held Friday at 1 p.m. and Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at 246 Center
for the Arts.
	His Friday schedule includes a taping of a brief interview for
UB/TV at 2:30 p.m.; a tour of the Center for the Arts and a campus
tour with Dean of Arts and Letters Kerry Grant and Center for the Arts
Director Robert Chumbley from 3:30-4:30 p.m.; attendance at a Grand
Opening Reception with President and Mrs. William R. Greiner at 6 p.m.
in the Center for the Arts as well as a 7 p.m. ribbon cutting
ceremony. Zweibel will attend the 8 p.m. performance of "The
Threepenny Opera," presented by the UB Department of Theatre and Dance
and the UB Department of Music in the Drama Theatre.
	On Saturday, following the workshop, Zweibel will be a guest
in the President's Suite in UB Stadium, at the football game pitting
the UB Bulls against Youngstown State.