Bryce Zabel is an American television producer, director, writer, industry leader and occasional actor. He is widely known as the chairman/CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences who was forced to twice postpone the Emmy Awards following the September 11 attacks. He has received the "created by" or "developed by" credit of five network and syndicated television series. He developed produced and wrote the TV series Dark Skies based on real UFO research, worked on the TV series on alien abductions, Taken, with Steven Spielberg, and is now co-author of the book A.D. After Disclosure with Richard Dolan.