Dan Harmon is an American producer, writer, actor and voice artist
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Dan Harmon is an American producer, writer, actor and voice artist
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In 2011, Dan Harmon discovered that he might be suffering from Asperger syndrome.
In December 2013, he proposed to his sweetheart Erin McGathy on the shores of Loch Ness. The couple got married the following year. They announced their separation in October 2015.
Currently, the American artist is in a relationship with Cody Heller.
Dan Harmon was born on January 3, 1973 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the USA. He studied at Brown Deer High School and later graduated from the Marquette University. He also attended Glendale Community College for a brief period of time.
Dan Harmon started his career in the entertainment industry in the 1990s. Initially he was a part of the improvisational comedy organization ComedySportz Milwaukee alongside comedian Rob Schrab. In 1996, the duo created the album ‘Take Down the Grand Master’.
Harmon then co-created the TV pilot ‘Heat Vision and Jack’ in 1999. He then came up with a number of Channel 101 shows featuring Sarah Silverman, Black and Drew Carey.
He appeared in two episodes of the Channel 101 web series titled ‘Yacht Rock’, portraying a fictionalized version of Ted Templeman. Harmon next served as the executive producer, creator, and a featured performer in the sketch show ‘Acceptable.TV’.
In 2006, he, along with Rob Schrab wrote the screenplay for the hit film ‘Monster House’. Soon after this, he wrote a part of Schrab's comic book series titled ‘Scud: The Disposable Assassin’ as well as its spin-off series ‘La Cosa Nostroid’.
He co-created ‘The Sarah Silverman Program’ which ran from 2007 to 2010. He also served as a writer for many of its episodes.
In the late 1990s, Dan Harmon began developing a storytelling framework, the "Story Circle,” to codify the storytelling procedure and provide a structure for developing stories for TV shows and films.
In 2013, he co-created the adult animated sci-fi adventure comedy series ‘Rick and Morty’. The show is about the adventures of a smart but mean-spirited inventor and his dim-witted grandson. The series premiered in December 2013. Harmon lent his voice to the character of Birdperson and also voiced additional characters. In May 2018, the show was renewed for a further 70 episodes.