Philip LaZebnik

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Philip LaZebnik, born 1953 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the oldest child of 4 siblings. Philip is the son of Vesta and Jack Lazebnik. He was raised and expirienced all fo his childhood memories in the state of columbia. Philip attended Harvard, studying Ancient Greek and classics. Briefly Philip was a professional violinist for the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He later gave that up when he moved to chicago to pursue his dream of writing plays (fx. Summer stock murder). Along with his brother, Kenny LaZebnik, he founded the Chicago Premiere Society. On a trip to London he met his soon to be wife. Being a native Dane she made a great sacrifice when she decided to move in with him in his shabby apartment in Chicago. After their first child was born in Chicago, they decided to move to L.A.. In the mean time Philip had gotten a job writing for the sit-com "Wings". Their second child was born in 1990, while he was an employee of "wings". One year after his second off-spring he was a writer for "The Torkelsons". Three years after his third and final child was born he had chosen to work for Disney. In 1993 he contributed to the screen play of Pocahontas, 1998 he worked on Mulan and The prince of Egypt. He was also a consultant for El Dorado. In 2002 he and his family left the country and moved to his wifes original homeland, Denmark. After trouble adapting to the native language he found himself suddenly busy writing scripts. He has written the manuscripts to Tempelriddernes skat, Tempelriddernes skat II, Asterix and the vikings etc.

Philip LaZebnik has also written an occasional Star Trek episode.