Jon Kinnally

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Jon Kinnally is an American television writer and producer, notable for his work on the multi-Emmy award[1] and Golden Globe Award[2] nominated TV show Will & Grace. He and his writing partner, Tracy Poust, started on the show as staff writers, eventually running the show as Executive Producers in the show's eighth season. They penned the famous episode "A Chorus Lie" starring Matt Damon as Owen, Jack's heterosexual rival, pretending to be gay to vie for a spot in the Manhattan Gay Men's Chorus. They won a Writer's Guild Award for Outstanding Writing Episodic Comedy 2018 for their episode "Rosario's Quinceañera." 

Kinnally and Poust also wrote and produced on Ugly Betty which was nominated for and won Emmy, Golden Globes, NAACP Awards, and a Peabody, among others. They were nominated for a Writers Guild Award and an NAACP Image award for their episode "Crush'd."

Kinnally and Poust also wrote and produced "2 Broke Girls" and "A.J. and the Queen," as well as other television shows.

Kinnally also appeared as Mitchell in the Will & Grace episode "One Gay at a Time".

He is from Syracuse and is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego,

• Jon Kinnally at IMDb