Robert Sternin
Birth Name:
Robert Sternin
Profession
Writer, Producer
Fast Facts
- Graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Drama and English in 1977 and earned his Master's in Playwriting from UCLA in 1979
- Staged a run-in with two Warner Bros․ producers who he saw on the street in order to get a meeting to pitch them his and his wife's ideas
- Quote: "(On breaking into the business): "You have to be ready, you have to make your own luck, and you have to be ready when you get lucky․""
- Quote: "The first laugh that [his first] play got on the first page, I thought 'there's no way I'm not doing this․' If it weren't for that and for Tufts, a lot of people would be dead, because I'd be a doctor․"
- Founded the production company Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc․ with his wife, Prudence Fraser
- Best known as the writer and executive producer of "The Nanny" and "Who's the Boss?"
- Was in the pre-med program at Tufts University when an English teacher suggested he take a playwriting course and he discovered he could do something he loved "and not be a doctor․"