Michael Shipley is a television writer and producer whose credits include

Family Guy ''Family Guy'' is an American animated sitcom originally conceived and created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show centers around the Griffin family, Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter Griff ...

, My Name is Earl,

American Dad! ''American Dad!'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Since 2014, the series has been airing new episodes on TBS. ''American Dad!'' is the first television ...

, Andy Richter Controls The Universe,

Better Off Ted ''Better Off Ted'' is an American satirical sitcom series, created by Victor Fresco, who also served as the show's executive producer. The series ran on the ABC network from March 18, 2009, to January 26, 2010. ''Better Off Ted'' focuses on the ...

and others. He is currently an Executive Producer on Last Man Standing with Tim Allen on

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. Shipley and Eva Longoria recently made thirteen episodes of the animated show,

Mother Up! ''Mother Up!'' is an adult animated television series starring Eva Longoria, that streamed on Hulu in the United States and aired on City in Canada for a single season from 2013 to 2014. The show chronicles the misguided attempts at parenthood of ...

, for

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’s new original programming division.

Background

Shipley grew up in the beachside town of Santa Cruz, California, the son of

William F. Shipley William F. Shipley (November 19, 1921 – January 20, 2011) was an American linguist whose main area of research was the now-extinct Maidu language of Northern California. He was one of the last speakers of the language. Life Shipley was a stu ...

, a UC Berkeley/Santa Cruz linguistics professor who specialized in Native American languages and a

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

mother. He attended

Santa Cruz High School Santa Cruz High School is a comprehensive public school in Santa Cruz, California which originally opened in 1897 and now serves an enrollment of about 1,040 students in grades nine through twelve. It is part of the Santa Cruz City School Distr ...

, then the University of California, Santa Cruz for college. Following a post-college relocation to Los Angeles, Michael wrote, performed and directed with several sketch comedy groups including ''Fun with Weasels'' and ''3 Guys in Raincoats''. As a teenager, Michael performed community theater with Emmy-award-winning actress Camryn Manheim. He has one sister, Freya, who is an actress and Montessori teacher. His mother Barbara Shipley, died when Michael was 23. His father, William Shipley died in 2011.

Personal

In addition to writing for television, Shipley writes and records noise and is an avid photographer. He currently resides in Santa Monica, California.

Awards

Shipley has been nominated for an

Emmy The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

for his work on

, as well as an

NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E.&nb ...

award.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shipley, Michael Living people American male screenwriters American television producers Year of birth missing (living people) Santa Cruz High School alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni People from Santa Cruz, California