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Merrick, NY--Unexpected and interesting speakers have become a mainstay each year at Centurion. For the 2015 Show, Centurion is pleased to showcase veteran comedy writer Alan Zweibel of Saturday Night Live and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame.

"Our attendees love hearing from speakers who fascinate, whether jewelry related or otherwise. We know they will find Alan most interesting," said Centurion president Howard Hauben. "We're excited to have him on board."

Zweibel is a frequent guest on talk shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Morning Joe, and NPR, Alan Zweibel’s many Broadway contributions include his collaboration with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play 700 Sundays, Martin Short’s Broadway hit Fame Becomes Me. His other theatrical contributions include the off-Broadway plays Happy, Comic Dialogue, Between Cars, Pine Cone Moment, and Bunny Bunny – Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy, which he adapted from his best-selling book. Zweibel is currently preparing a one-woman show for Lisa Lampanelli.

Books by Zweibel include the 2006 Thurber Prize winning novel The Other Shulman, the popular children’s book Our Tree Named Steve, North, a collection of short stories and essays titled Clothing Optional, and the novel Lunatics (co-written with Dave Barry). He has also penned two bestselling e-books titled From My Bottom Drawer: Volumes I and II. His humor has also appeared in such diverse publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Op-Ed page, The Huffington Post and MAD Magazine. Zweibel also has a Young Adult novel forthcoming, Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain In My Ass (Hyperion), written with Adam Mansbach.

The co-writer of the screenplays for Dragnet, North, and The Story of Us, the Writers Guild of America, East awarded Zweibel the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. Zweibel also recently received an honorary PhD from the State University of New York. But he's modest about his successes.

“There were times when I hid under the ‘Weekend Update’ desk passing jokes to the anchor while we were on the air. We were like a bunch of fourth-graders putting on a show every week,” he laughs. With all Zweibel has achieved in television, film, and theater, the production that he is most proud of is the family he’s co-produced with his wife Robin, their children Adam, Lindsay and Sari, and their grandchildren Zachary, Alex, Jordan and Kylie.