Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

Levitan has also won a CableACE Award and a Writers Guild nomination for The Larry Sanders Show. Career
Levitan worked as a WKOW-TV on-air news reporter and morning anchorman in Madison Wisconsin; and as a copywriter at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago. Steven moved to Hollywood in 1989.

He has created such TV series as Just Shoot Me! Stark Raving Mad Stacked Back to You and Modern Family. Steven E. Levitan (born April 6 1962) is an American director screenwriter and producer of television comedies.