Emile Levisetti is an established and sought after television director and filmmaker. He is regularly asked back to direct multiple episodes, including Season Premieres and Finales on hit shows like Royal Pains(USA), Bones(FOX), Covert Affairs(USA), The Glades(A&E), Castle(ABC) and Hit the Floor(VH1). Other credits include Lie to Me(FOX), and Army Wives(LIfetime). Emile has also showcased his versatility on the half hour front, having helmed both multi and single camera comedies for ABC and Lifetime.
Levisetti's television career began in 1995 as Director of Comedy Development at Columbia Pictures. He quickly moved to 20th Century Fox Television where he served as VP of Comedy Development and Current Programming, involved in the development and current programming of series including: Family Guy(FOX), Yes, Dear(CBS), King of the Hill(FOX), Dharma and Greg(ABC), Futurama(FOX), Titus(FOX), 2 Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place(ABC) and Stark Raving Mad(NBC).
Levisetti then went on to run the Television Department for Industry Entertainment and later his own banner, Bushwacker Productions. In all he went on to develop and Exec Produce multiple over 150 episodes of Prime Time television. Most notably: Hope and Faith(ABC), starring Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford, Haunted(UPN) starring Matthew Fox and Russell Hornsby, The Education of Max Bickford(CBS)starring Richard Dreyfus, In Case of Emergency(ABC) that he got Jon Favreau to direct and starring David Arquette, Kelly Hu, Lori Loughlin, Jonathon Silverman and Greg Germann as well as Nightlife, that he got Zach Braff to direct.
A Chicago native and world traveler, Levisetti grew up on the Campus of the University of Chicago. Having the good fortune to attend prestigious schools in Chicago, Connecticut and Paris, France, as well as graduating from Cornell University.
Levisetti is fluent in both French and his father's Italian and holds Passports, and Dual Citizenship, in the USA and Italy.
