{{Notability|Bio|date=January 2024}}{{short description|American writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Ron Burch''' is an American writer of television, film, plays, short fiction and novels. His movies include ''Head over Heels'', ''Yours, Mine and Ours'' and ''Ferdinand''. He was the executive producer/showrunner (along with David Kidd) of the DreamWorks Animation TV show ''Dinotrux''. He and Kidd wrote the second, third, and fourth seasons of "Marvel Super Hero Adventures".<ref name="PowerThatConcedes" />
== Early life == Ron Burch was born in Columbus, Ohio. His family later moved to Sunbury, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University<!--Wikipedians do not use "The" as part of Ohio State's name; it is considered a marketing gimmick, and routinely deleted.-->, Antioch University Los Angeles, and the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
== Hollywood == While living in New York City, Burch and his writing partner, David Kidd, began writing together. They relocated to Los Angeles, where they worked as Staff Writers on the Tom Selleck sitcom ''The Closer'' for CBS.<ref name=PowerThatConcedes>{{cite web|title=Author Page|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120816/|website=IMDB Pro|accessdate=22 December 2014}}</ref> In 1998, they, along with composer Ed Alton, were nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Music and Lyrics" for the song "You Don't Know Jack."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ron Burch |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/ron-burch |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Television Academy |language=en}}</ref> In the 2000s, the duo began working in film and received screen credit on ''Ferdinand, Head Over Heels'' and ''Yours, Mine and Ours''.<ref name="PowerThatConcedes"/> He then worked as an executive producer on DreamWorks Animation's ''Dinotrux''. In addition to Ferdinand being nominated for an Academy Award, the Annie Award, the Golden Globe Award and several others, Burch, along with his co-writers, won the "Humanitas Award" for "Feature--Family."{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
== Fiction == Burch was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story "The Flower Pot" in Juked, Issue 6, February 1, 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=Issue Page |url=http://www.juked.com/ |url-status=dead |accessdate=22 December 2014 |website=Juked |publisher=J.W. Wang |archive-date=22 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222190137/http://www.juked.com/ }}</ref> His novel, ''BLISS INC'', was published by BlazeVox Books in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Book Page |url=http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/fiction/bliss-inc.-by-ron-burch-22/ |accessdate=22 December 2014 |website=BlazeVox Books |publisher=Geoffrey Gatza |archive-date=22 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222042054/http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/fiction/bliss-inc.-by-ron-burch-22/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His story "I Need" appeared in the anthology ''TOO MUCH: Tales of Excess'' (Chuck Howe and Bud Smith, editors)<ref>{{cite book|title=Book page|isbn=978-1500216771 |last1=Howe |first1=Chuck |date=August 2014 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform }}</ref>
== Plays == Burch's 10-minute plays, "The Baby," "The Origin of Lewis Hackett," and "Polly," were named Best 10-Minute Play in 2011, 2014, and 2015, respectively.<ref name="Author Page">{{cite web |title=Author Page |url=http://www.smithandkraus.com/htdocs/store.php?b=1575257823 |accessdate=22 December 2014 |website=Smith & Kraus Books |publisher=Smith & Kraus |archive-date=7 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307124541/http://www.smithandkraus.com/htdocs/store.php?b=1575257823 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His 10-minute play, "Romeo and Jules," appears in the Best of Playground 2013: Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=Best of Playground |url=http://playground-sf.org/publications.shtml |accessdate=22 December 2014 |website=Playground LA |publisher=Jim Kleinmann |archive-date=22 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222040919/http://playground-sf.org/publications.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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