Tim Saccardo is a comedic writer, director, and improviser born and raised in Middletown, Rhode Isla... more >

Tim Saccardo is a comedic writer, director, and improviser born and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island. After graduating college in Boston, he spent five years in New York working in TV production before relocating to sunny Los Angeles to make his East Coast friends jealous of his year-round tan. Tim's writing portfolio contains spec scripts for TV's The Office, Scrubs, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as the original comedy pilots Invasion of Privacy and Patches & Henderson. He is co-creator and writer of the online comedy magazine www.InsideJoke.TV , and his writing has also been published in thephatphree.com, Back Stage West and Young Money magazine. Tim has written, directed, produced, or edited each of Inside Joke Productions' film projects, including So Happy Together (2003), How to Make it in New York on $15 a Day (2004), Making the Joke (2004), and most recently Slideshow (2006). He also served as a writer, director, and producer for various episodes of Manhattan Cable Television's The Anti Show and directed the LA sketch comedy troupe 12 Short of a Dozen. Tim studies and performs sketch and long-form improv comedy at Hollywood's Improv Olympic West and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. < less