Michael Schur Biography

Michael Schur is an American television producer, writer, and actor best known for his work on the NBC comedy series The Office (2005–2013). He is also known for his role in Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), which he co-created along with Greg Daniels, and The Good Place (2016–present), which he created.

Michael Schur Age

Schur was born Michael Herbert Schur on October 29, 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. He is 47years old as of 2022.

Michael Schur Height

Schur stands at a height of 6 foot (1.83 m or 183 cm) tall weighing 176 lb / 80 kg.

Michael Schur Family

Schur was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is the son of Warren M. Schur and Anne Herbert.

Michael Schur Wife

Schur is married to J. J. Philbin, an American producer and screenwriter since 2005. J. J. Philbin was formerly a writer on The O.C. and is the daughter of television star Regis Philbin.

The couples son was born in February 2008 and their daughter was born in July 2010. The couple resides in Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Michael Schur Net Worth

Schur has an estimated net worth of $5 million which he has earned through his successful career as a television producer, writer, and actor.

Michael Schur Career

Schur also co-created the NBC comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–present), and has also made multiple appearances on The Office as Mose Schrute, the cousin of Dwight Schrute.

Schur is a graduate of William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut and of Harvard University class of 1997 In 1998.

Schur was a writer on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, untill 2004. He became the producer of Weekend Update in 2001, his first show in the new role was Saturday Night Live’s first episode. Soon after, he became producer and writer for The Office on NBC for which he wrote ten episodes. Schur appeared on The Office as Dwight’s cousin Mose in the episodes “Initiation”, in which Dwight takes Ryan to his beet farm, “Money”, in which Jim and Pam spend a night at the farm, “The Deposition”, “Koi Pond”, and “Counseling”. Together Paul Lieberstein, they also wrote The Office, The Accountants webisodes.

In 2005, Schur wrote two of of HBO’s thirteen episodes and served as a co-producer of ‘The Comeback’.

Schur also wrote for a sports journalism blog “Fire Joe Morgan”, under the pseudonym ‘Ken Tremendous’. On March 31, 2011 Schur began writing for SB Nation’s Baseball Nation site. Ken Tremendous is also Schur’s Twitter username.

In April 2008, Schur and Greg Daniels started workings a proposed spin-off of The Office on a pilot for Parks and Recreation Over time, Schur realized Parks and Recreation would work better if they made it separate from The Office. While Parks and Recreation received negative reviews in its first season, it received critical acclaim in the second, much like The Office.

From the album The King Is Dead, Schur collaborated with The Decemberists on their music video for “Calamity Song”. This video is based upon Eschaton, a mock-nuclear war game played on tennis courts that David Foster Wallace created in his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. Schur wrote his undergraduate senior thesis on the novel and he also owns the film rights to it.

Schur created the NBC comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine With Daniel J. Goor, which premiered in fall 2013.

Schur-created sitcom ‘The Good Place’ On September 19, 2016 which began the airing on NBC.

Schur co-wrote the teleplay of “Nosedive” In 2016, an episode of the television anthology series Black Mirror with Rashida Jones from a story by Charlie Brooker.

Michael Schur Book

Schur has is the author of a book called How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.

Michael Schur The Office

Schur was one of the co-producers and writers of The Office. He also played the role of Moses Dwight’s cousin.

Michael Schur Movies