Matt Tarses

Writerproducer Matt Tarses is best known for his work on the comedies Scrubs and Sports Night In 1998 he began working on the latter serving as coproducer and writing nine episodes from 1998 to 2000 He wrote two episodes of the sitcom Norm before beginning work on the longrunning sitcom Scrubs He wrote eight episodes of the series and was coexecutive producer for 80 episodes from 2001 to 2005 In 2003 he wrote the screenplay for the film A Guy Thing and a year later produced the TV film Americana directed by David Schwimmer In 2006 he wrote and produced an episode of the series Teachers and two years later he wrote and executive produced the series Worst Week He has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for the first season of Scrubs and has won two Humanitas Prizes one for Scrubs and another for an episode of Sports Night