Before creating and executive-producing the critically acclaimed Arrested Development, Emmy® Award-winner Mitchell Hurwitz created and ran the series Everything's Relative, where he first worked with Jeffrey Tambor. He also was the executive producer on The John Larroquette Show and The Ellen Show, the latter of which he also co-created. More recently, he served as a consulting producer on Less Than Perfect.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Hurwitz began his career as a writer/producer on The Golden Girls. He received his first Emmy® Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2004.