Mel Damski has directed dozens movies and hundreds of hours of series
television, from
M*A*S*H (1972) to
Boston Legal (2004) to
Psych (2006) and _Scorpion_. For the
past several years he served as the producer/director of
Psych (2006) for USA
network.
He has been nominated for an Oscar, two Emmy Awards and earned a
Christopher Award for
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989).
A graduate of the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film
Studies, Mel has taught at AFI, USC and the Tisch School at NYU. He is
the founder of Cascadia Film Workshops, which launched in June, 2014 on
the campus of Western Washington University.
A former Newsday reporter, Mel writes a column, If I Ran The Zoo, which
was recently awarded first place by the Washington Newspaper
Publisher's Association. His columns can be found at
IfMelRanTheZoo.com.
Mel is a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences and
the Director's Guilds of America and Canada.