Paul Zbyszewski is an American television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on the series ''

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'' and ''

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'', and he is the creator of ''Day Break''. He also wrote the feature film ''

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''.

Career

Zbyszewski began working in television as a writer on the game show ''

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''. His screenplay for ''

'' (which he co-wrote with Craig Rosenberg) was released theatrically in 2004. Zbyszewski went on to create the ABC science fiction series ''

,'' where he worked as a co-executive producer and writer for the show's short run in the 2006-2007 television season. He wrote the pilot as well as the episodes "What If They Run?", "What If She's Lying?" (with Henry Alonso Myers), "What If She's the Key?" (with

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) and the series finale "What If It's Him?" (with Bell). In 2013-14, and 2014-15 Zbyszewski was executive producer or co-executive producer on all episodes of the new ABC hit drama, ''Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' Zbyszewski was a supervising producer and writer for the fifth season of ''

'' in 2009. He co-wrote the episodes " Jughead" (with executive producer

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), "

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" (with producer

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) and " Follow the Leader" (with Sarnoff). For their work on the fifth season of Lost, Zbyszewski and his co-workers were nominated for the

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for best drama series, an

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for outstanding drama series and the

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for outstanding episodic drama. He was promoted to co-executive producer for the sixth, final season. He co-wrote three episodes with story editor

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; " Sundown", " The Package" and "

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". In May 2019, Zbyszewski was hired as

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and executive producer of a '' Helstrom'' series for

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, based on the

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characters

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and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zbyszewski, Paul Living people American television producers American television writers American male television writers American people of Polish descent Showrunners 1970 births