External links
- Bob Brush at IMDb
- Brush on working on The Wonder Years
- Rolling Stone article on Wonder Years Oral History
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Robert Brush is an American writer-producer and composer, best known for his work as executive producer, writer and show runner of ABC's The Wonder Years . For The Wonder Years he received an Emmy for individual writing, the Peabody Award, and multiple Humanitas Awards. [1] [2] [3] He was an executive producer and regular writer of the CBS series Early Edition (1996–2000).
Brush began his career as a musical composer following his graduation from Yale, where he was Pitchpipe of the Yale Whiffenpoofs. [4] In the 1970s he worked at Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo , writing scripts and composing songs, among them the Good Morning Captain theme song. In 1981 he composed the score for the Broadway musical The First , about baseball immortal Jackie Robinson, which ran for 70 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre. [5] [6] In 1986 he teamed with writer/producer Jay Tarses on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd , starring Blair Brown, and The Slap Maxwell Story with Dabney Coleman. Beginning in 1988 he executive-produced and wrote The Wonder Years for its run of over 100 episodes, and followed with Early Edition, starring Kyle Chandler. His final work in Los Angeles was a 2012 television film, Scruples.
In 2022, Brush published a novel, The Piazza: Stories from Piazza Santa Caterina Piccola. [7]
As of 2017 [update] , Brush lives in Manhattan and Hudson, New York with his wife, actress and writer Mel Harris. [8] Brush has four children, two with Harris. [8]
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