David Zabel is an American television producer and writer. He was born and raised in New York City. He attended Princeton University and New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. Zabel began his scriptwriting career with episodes for JAG and Star Trek: Voyager. He then became the story editor for the first season of Dark Angel in 2000 while continuing to write teleplays. He has worked extensively on ER, becoming an executive producer and the series showrunner. He has won a Humanitas Prize for his writing for ER. He was also the showrunner/executive producer of the PBS series Mercy Street.
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023)
Show crew as Executive Producer
Show crew as Creator
Episode crew as Writer
(10 episodes)
- Episode 3x07: Solaz Del Mar (Oct 19, 2025)
- Episode 3x05: Limbo (Oct 5, 2025)
- Episode 3x03: El Sacrificio (Sep 21, 2025)
- Episode 3x02: La Ofrenda (Sep 14, 2025)
- Episode 3x01: Costa Da Morte (Sep 7, 2025)
- Episode 2x05: Vouloir, C'est Pouvoir (Oct 27, 2024)
- Episode 2x04: Le Paradis Pour Toi (Oct 20, 2024)
- Episode 1x05: Deux Amours (Oct 8, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: Alouette (Sep 17, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: L'âme Perdue (Sep 10, 2023)
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 2x06: Au Revoir Les Enfants (Nov 3, 2024)
Stumptown (2019)
Show crew as Executive Producer
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x04: Family Ties (Oct 16, 2019)
- Episode 1x03: Rip City Dicks (Oct 9, 2019)
- Episode 1x02: Missed Connections (Oct 2, 2019)
Mercy Street (2016)
Show crew as Creator
Show crew as Executive Producer
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 1x01: The New Nurse (Jan 17, 2016)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 1x01: The New Nurse (Jan 17, 2016)
Episode crew as Writer
(4 episodes)
- Episode 2x06: House of Bondage (Mar 5, 2017)
- Episode 2x01: Balm in Gilead (Jan 22, 2017)
- Episode 1x06: The Diabolical Plot (Feb 21, 2016)
- Episode 1x02: The Haversack (Jan 24, 2016)
Red Band Society (2014)
Show crew as Consulting Producer
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 1x03: Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (Oct 1, 2014)
Dark Angel (2000)
Episode crew as Writer
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x20: Meow (May 15, 2001)
- Episode 1x09: Out (Jan 9, 2001)
- Episode 1x04: C.R.E.A.M. (Oct 31, 2000)
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 1x10: Red (Jan 16, 2001)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 1x12: Rising (Feb 13, 2001)
ER (1994)
Show crew as Co-Producer
- Episode 9x01: Chaos Theory (Sep 26, 2002)
Show crew as Executive Story Editor
- Episode 8x01: Four Corners (Sep 27, 2001)
Show crew as Supervising Producer
- Episode 10x01: Now What? (Sep 25, 2003)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer
- Episode 11x01: One for the Road (Sep 23, 2004)
Episode crew as Writer
(41 episodes)
- Episode 15x18: What We Do (Mar 5, 2009)
- Episode 15x17: T-Minus-6 (Feb 26, 2009)
- Episode 15x16: The Beginning of the End (Feb 19, 2009)
- Episode 15x07: Heal Thyself (Nov 13, 2008)
- Episode 15x03: The Book of Abby (Oct 16, 2008)
- Episode 14x19: The Chicago Way (May 15, 2008)
- Episode 14x14: Owner of a Broken Heart (Apr 10, 2008)
- Episode 14x10: 300 Patients (Dec 6, 2007)
- Episode 14x08: Coming Home (Nov 15, 2007)
- Episode 14x07: Blackout (Nov 8, 2007)
- Episode 14x01: The War Comes Home (Sep 27, 2007)
- Episode 13x23: The Honeymoon Is Over (May 17, 2007)
- Episode 13x21: I Don't (May 3, 2007)
- Episode 13x14: Murmurs of the Heart (Feb 1, 2007)
- Episode 13x11: City of Mercy (Dec 7, 2006)
- Episode 13x08: Reason to Believe (Nov 16, 2006)
- Episode 13x03: Somebody to Love (Oct 5, 2006)
- Episode 13x01: Bloodline (Sep 21, 2006)
- Episode 12x22: Twenty-One Guns (May 18, 2006)
- Episode 12x20: There Are No Angels Here (May 4, 2006)
- Episode 12x14: Quintessence of Dust (Feb 9, 2006)
- Episode 12x11: If Not Now (Jan 5, 2006)
- Episode 12x06: Dream House (Nov 3, 2005)
- Episode 12x03: Man with No Name (Oct 6, 2005)
- Episode 11x22: The Show Must Go On (May 19, 2005)
- Episode 11x17: Back in the World (Mar 24, 2005)
- Episode 11x16: Here and There (Feb 24, 2005)
- Episode 11x12: The Providers (Jan 27, 2005)
- Episode 11x06: Time of Death (Nov 11, 2004)
- Episode 11x02: Damaged (Oct 7, 2004)
- Episode 10x20: Abby Normal (Apr 29, 2004)
- Episode 10x17: The Student (Apr 1, 2004)
- Episode 10x09: Missing (Dec 4, 2003)
- Episode 10x05: Out of Africa (Oct 30, 2003)
- Episode 9x20: Foreign Affairs (May 1, 2003)
- Episode 9x10: Hindsight (Dec 12, 2002)
- Episode 9x04: Walk Like a Man (Oct 17, 2002)
- Episode 8x18: Orion in the Sky (Apr 4, 2002)
- Episode 8x12: A River in Egypt (Jan 17, 2002)
- Episode 8x09: Quo Vadis? (Nov 22, 2001)
- Episode 8x01: Four Corners (Sep 27, 2001)
Episode crew as Teleplay
- Episode 9x16: A Thousand Cranes (Feb 20, 2003)
Episode crew as Director
(2 episodes)
- Episode 15x18: What We Do (Mar 5, 2009)
- Episode 15x07: Heal Thyself (Nov 13, 2008)
Episode crew as Story
- Episode 10x02: The Lost (Oct 2, 2003)