Meet The Creator

Lee David Zlotoff is an award-winning writer, producer and director of film and television with over a hundred prime-time productions to his name, not least among them as the creator of the original MacGyver TV series. He also wrote and directed The Spitfire Grill, an independent feature film that won the coveted Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to become a surprisingly successful musical.

For a full list of his entertainment credits see Lee David Zlotoff at IMDB.

In addition to his active career in the entertainment industry, Lee David Zlotoff has also become an author, giving talks and offering workshops on a variety of topics including, The Power of Stories, The MacGyver Secret, and The Three and a Half Secrets to Success in Hollywood. Lee has done presentations or workshops to major corporations and universities around the world such as Zappos, The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Maker Faire, as well as Harvard and Stanford Universities just to name a few.

In 2022 Zlotoff helped launch ‘MacGyver The Musical’ — which had its world premiere at the Stages Theater in Houston, Texas. The show received rave reviews, sold out, had standing ovations in nearly every performance, and won the Houston Press Best New Musical award.

The MacGyver fiction book series was Co-written by Lee Zlotoff, and begins where the original TV series left off. In December of 2024 the first book in the series, MacGyver Meltdown, was re-released with a new cover design at the same time the second book, MacGyver Seismic Shift, debuted. Both books are available on Amazon.

Some of Lee’s Non-MacGyver Projects can be accessed on this site.  

Lee is a graduate of St. John’s College, with campuses in Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM, where he served on the board of directors for over a decade. As the father of four grown children, and now the grandfather of four, Lee is committed to supporting those who strive to improve global futures and outcomes. This is why he -and his children- have formed The MacGyver Foundation, which receives a portion of the proceeds from every MacGyver project.

If you are interested in Lee giving a presentation or workshop to your company, organization or school — in person or virtually – contact us.