Cort Casady

Cort Casady is an American television & documentary writer-producer, author, and playwright. Born in McAllen, Texas, he grew up in San Diego, California, and graduated from Harvard University prior to making his home in Los Angeles. He has won two Emmy Awards: a prime-time Emmy for the American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award Tribute to Mel Brooks (2014) and a New York Emmy for "New York at Night starring Clint Holmes," a daily, live, variety-talk series he created and executive produced for WOR Studios, NY (1992). He is also the winner of three NAACP Image Awards for televised musical documentary tributes to Stevie Wonder (2007), Smokey Robinson (2009), and Lionel Richie (2011). Casady began his career as a writer by creating the original story and characters for the five-part TV movie mini-series, "Kenny Rogers as the Gambler" (1980-1994). A veteran live broadcast and live event producer, Cort has written, produced, and helped to create dozens of music, variety, awards, documentary specials, and series including "Star Search" and television's first weekly environmental series, "Network Earth," which aired for five years on TBS. He is the co-writer with Mary Miller of the musical play, "King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story" and author of a memoir, "Not Your Father's America," published in 2023. The father of triplets, his sons Braden and Jackson are graduates of the University of Virginia; his son, Carter, a graduate of Cornell University, also has a Master's and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Casady and his wife, Barbara, an interior designer, live on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles, California.