Bo Kaprall

Bo Kaprall has been a television show creator, director, writer, producer, executive producer, and actor for over thirty-five years. This year (2024), he created and is executive producing a new television series, Operation Undercover, for HBO Max & Discovery ID, which debuts this September. Bo got his start in Chicago as an actor in the touring company of Chicago’s Second City. In the seventies he moved to Los Angeles where he started the Comedy Store Players and joined Kentucky Fried Theatre (Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, Police Squad). He then went on to write and produce several network series including The Carol Burnett Show, Laverne & Shirley, The Cher Show, Aaron Spelling’s Friends, Norman Lear’s Year at the Top, and Welcome Back Kotter. In addition, he has written over thirty network pilots. Over the years Bo has created and executive produced shows for ABC, CBS, NBC, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Discovery, TLC, and HGTV. In the eighties Bo moved to Minneapolis, where he started his own creative production company focusing on humorous radio and television commercials and corporate communications. Bo has recorded, written, and produced over 1,000 radio commercials, winning several Cleo and Radio Best Awards. He has appeared as an actor on over 50 television shows, the latest being Law & Order and Third Watch. For the last five years he has been teaching a course in “Beginning Writing for Television,” at various writing and film centers in Minneapolis and across the country (via Zoom).