For over 20 years, Kevin Zimmerman has worked as a professional journalist, writer and editor in the entertainment and business worlds, holding both staff and freelance positions. He has interviewed everyone from Orlando Bloom, Tony Bennett, Spike Lee, and members of Abba and Evanescence, to record executive/producer Tommy Mottola and the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

He has worked for a large number of consumer and trade publications, professional organizations, and websites, writing everything from breaking news, feature stories and celebrity profiles to executive interviews and speeches, music and television reviews, annual reports, newsletters, brochures, bios, press releases, and the like -- always with a commitment to the highest possible editorial quality, and always on deadline.

During his career, Zimmerman has developed a keen sense of news judgment, as well as the ability to translate difficult concepts, extensive data or overly technical descriptions into more palatable, easy to digest material.

He prides himself on being an astute wordsmith, one who delivers consistently strong copy (both his own and that of the writers he works with) that is at once cogent, informative and entertaining. His research and organizational skills, as well as his reliability and collaborative leadership, are above reproach.

Those strengths have served Zimmerman well throughout his professional career, which began when he was hired as Music Editor at showbiz bible Variety. While there, Zimmerman began writing on a freelance basis for such disparate publications as Spin, Spy and Musician. Electing to go freelance full-time after five years at Variety, Zimmerman maintained a highly-regarded reputation at such television trade publications as Cablevision, Multichannel News, and Broadcasting & Cable, as well as at such professional organizations as the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). A staff writing position with the Financial Times-produced publication Music & Copyright led directly to his being hired as U.S. Editor for the London-based trade magazine Music Business International.

It was at about the same time that Zimmerman branched further out into speech-writing, delivering speeches for such executives as Anne Sweeney (Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group); Rich Ross (President, Disney Channel Worldwide); Lyor Cohen (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Warner Music Group); and Kedar Massenburg (President and Founder, Kedar Entertainment and Senior Vice President, Universal Records). He also ghost-wrote speeches for many other television and music business executives.

Zimmerman continues to do consulting and writing work for such diverse entities as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Trivial Pursuit, and Entertainment Marketing Letter, and is published on a freelance basis by the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant.

In addition, in 2005, Zimmerman decided to pursue his lifelong dream and take a shot at professional fiction-writing. From an initial phone call and meeting, it took just three months to successfully have an original script make it to air, for Procter & Gamble Productions’ Guiding Light. He continues to pursue opportunities in scriptwriting and other fiction-based genres.

Zimmerman resides in Connecticut with his wife and their two-year-old son.