Fall season is here. Thank god, approved ophthalmologist finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode.
+ He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Streamy Awards and an Emmy. And of course along with his brothers, he provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing episodes Unleashed (2009), The Transformation (2009, and The Dreamscape (2008).
+ He’s the writer of the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer/producer for FXs show Terriers. He’s also supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and he’s been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, mind finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, therapy well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy 7th season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003. She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series. And SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, discount rx finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, visit web well before and after my laptop was gone, here with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy 7th season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003. She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series. And SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, overweight finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, tadalafil well before and after my laptop was gone, there with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy 7th season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003. She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series. And SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, pills finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, visit this site well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy 7th season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003. She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series. And SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, eczema finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, about it well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy 7th season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003. She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing fo the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, geriatrician finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, viagra order well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing fo the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, help finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, hospital finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, what is ed well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University and then was a production assistant on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode. He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing the new Terminator comic book series, and is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, physician finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University and then was a production assistant on his older brother’s show Angel.
+ He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode. He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing the new Terminator comic book series, and is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, illness finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel.
+ He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode. He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing the new Terminator comic book series, and is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon. He wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, patient finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel.
+ He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode. He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. And of course along with his brothers provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, thumb finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, generic well before and after my laptop was gone, erectile with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode.
+ He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Streamy Awards and an Emmy. And of course along with his brothers, he provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing episodes Unleashed (2009), The Transformation (2009, and The Dreamscape (2008). He also the head writer of the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, pilule finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, symptoms well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode.
+ He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Streamy Awards and an Emmy. And of course along with his brothers, he provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing episodes Unleashed (2009), The Transformation (2009, and The Dreamscape (2008). He also the head writer of the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers. For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, diet finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, doctor well before and after my laptop was gone, there with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode.
+ He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Streamy Awards and an Emmy. And of course along with his brothers, he provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing episodes Unleashed (2009), The Transformation (2009, and The Dreamscape (2008). He also the head writer of the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer/producer for FXs show Terriers. He’s also supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and he’s been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, ambulance finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, implant well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode.
+ He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Streamy Awards and an Emmy. And of course along with his brothers, he provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing episodes Unleashed (2009), The Transformation (2009, and The Dreamscape (2008).
+ He’s the writer of the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer/producer for FXs show Terriers. He’s also supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and he’s been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Fall season is here. Thank god, cialis 40mg finally. In celebration I’ve been working on a post, therapist well before and after my laptop was gone, with some ‘where are our favorite writer/director/creators’ right now. These might be suggestions on what to watch or it might be just for fun, you decide.

Steven S. DeKnight

+ Producer, Writer, and Director for Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote “Swell” in the Buffy season eight comic series and served as a Consulting Producer and onetime Writer for Dollhouse.
+ Wrote Buffy episodes: Seeing Red (2002), Dead Things (2002), All the Way (2001), Spiral (2001), Blood Ties (2001)
+ Wrote Angel episodes: The Girl in Question (2004), Shells (2004 and directed), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Destiny (2003), Hell-Bound (22 October 2003 and directed), Inside Out (2 April 2003 and directed), Release (12 March 2003), Calvary (12 February 2003), Awakening (29 January 2003), Apocalypse, Nowish (17 November 2002), Deep Down (6 October 2002)
+ Wrote and directed Dollhouse episode: The Target (2009)
+ Now an Executive Producer and Writer for Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’ve only seen the first couple episodes, but I hear the show gets better and better. Plus, season two is on the way.

Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

+ The dynamic (and married) duo co-wrote Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and won an Emmy and Streamy Award for it, and were then writers for Dollhouse. Together they also cowrote the songs ‘Remains’, which she also sang, and ‘Drones’  which were featured in Dollhouse episodes.
+ With Felicia Day, Jed Whedon also co-wrote the song ‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’ for her webseries The Guild and directed the video. Jed also just came out with an album of 12 tracks called History of Forgotten Things (Felicia Day plays violin and sings backup on a few tracks) and includes one track from Dollhouse.
+ They wrote some of the best Dollhouse episodes: Epitaph Two: Return (2010), The Attic (2009), Meet Jane Doe (2009), Belonging (2009), Epitaph One (2009), Stage Fleft (27 February 2009), Haunted (24 April 2009)
+ As of season 2, they will now be writers on Steven S. DeKnight’s series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Just another reason to watch and catch up.

Jane Espenson

+ Did a five-year stint as writer/producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also worked on The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, and co-created Warehouse 13.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 23 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Band Candy” through “End of Days“; Angel: Guise Will Be Guise (2000), Rm w/a Vu (1999); Firelfy: Shindig (2002); four for Tim Minear’s The Inside; Dollhouse: Briar Rose (2009), Haunted (2009); five for Battlestar Galactica; and two for Caprica.
+ With Drew Goddard she won a Hugo Award in 2003 for Buffy episode “Conversations with Dead People.” She also won a Streamy Award for a Dramatic Web Series: Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2009).
+ She is currently working on Caprica, as showrunner and writer for the series and SyFy just announced it’s coming back early on Oct 5th. She’ll also be writing for the fourth season of Torchwood.

Marti Noxon

+ Producer, writer, and director for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and that’s her singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 22 episodes of Buffy including: What’s My Line?: Part 1 (17 November 1997), What’s My Line?: Part 2 (24 November 1997), Surprise (19 January 1998), The Wish (8 December 1998), Wild at Heart (9 November 1999), Into the Woods (19 December 2000 and directed), Forever (17 April 2001 and directed), and Bring on the Night (17 December 2002).
+ Won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) in 2010 for the third season of AMCs Mad Men. And co-wrote a second-season episode of Mad Men, “The Inheritance”, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
+ She wrote the screenplay for the upcoming remake of Fright Night.

Zack Whedon

+ The third brother of the Whedon clan, Zack graduated from his older brother’s alma mater Wesleyan University. He followed that up with a production assistant stint on his older brother’s show Angel. He was also an assistant on Deadwood and even wrote an episode.
+ He then earned his wings and helped to co-write Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Streamy Awards and an Emmy. And of course along with his brothers, he provided one of the voices to Bad Horse from the musical.
+ He has since worked on Fringe, writing episodes Unleashed (2009), The Transformation (2009, and The Dreamscape (2008).
+ He’s the writer of the new Terminator comic book series told through Kyle Reese’s point of view. He is now a writer on staff for AMCs Rubicon and wrote the series’ sixth episode, Look to the Ant (2010).

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes from season 1 through season 4. After co-writing one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What’s My Line?: Part 1 (1997), he created his own short-lived show Strange World in 1999 with fellow Whedon alum Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel and he wrote three episodes: The Ring (2000), Expecting (2000), Hero (1999).
+ But Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘, where he would write several episodes in Seasons 1 & 2, and then crafted the entire story arcs for Seasons 3 and 4. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
+ Starting in 2006, Gordon is 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer. It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several series including The X-Files and Lois and Clark. He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Plus, directed 7 episodes and wrote 12 episodes of Angel including: Hero (1999), Somnambulist (2000), Sanctuary (2000), Darla (2000), Billy (2001), Lullaby (2001 and directed); Firefly: The Message (2003 and directed), Out of Gas (2002), Bushwhacked (2002 and directed), The Train Job (2002); Dollhouse: Getting Closer (2010 and directed), Belle Chose (2009), Omega (2009 and directed), True Believer (2009).
+ He’s working as a writer/producer for FXs show Terriers. He’s also supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and he’s been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

+ Fellow Pembroke Hill alums are making a pretty good career for themselves by hopping from show to show. They started off as writers for Dawson’s Creek, next Angel, and then The Shield.
+ They then created and ran their own show Women’s Murder Club, but parted from ABC due to creative differences. Whedon then hired them back for Dollhouse. And Shawn Ryan then hired them back for Lie to Me.
+ The next step of course was to come full circle and be hired by the creator of the first show they’d worked on for Vampire Diaries‘ second season.
+ Angel: Underneath (2004), Harm’s Way (2004), Unleashed (2003), Shiny Happy People (2003), Players (2003), Release (12 March 2003), Soulless (5 February 2003), Supersymmetry (3 November 2002); Dollhouse: Echoes (2009), Gray Hour (2009)

David Fury

+ Writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Inside, Lost, and 24. He won a WGA Award in 2006 and Emmy in 2005 for his work on Lost, and an Emmy in 2006 for his work on 24. And yeah, he was also the Mustard Man singing in BtVS episode ‘Once More With Feeling’.
+ 17 episodes of Buffy including: Helpless (1999), Choices (1999), Fear Itself (1999), Crush (2001), Bargaining: Part 2 (2001), Grave (2002), Gone (2002 and directed), Showtime (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003 and directed); 12 episodes of Angel including: Lonely Hearts (1999), Parting Gifts (1999), You’re Welcome (2004 and directed).
+ He’s joined Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, and Peter Chernin as producers for FOXs upcoming Fall 2011 series Terra Nova.

Drew Goddard

+ Known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).
+ He won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his work on Lost and was nominated for an episode he wrote in the third season.
+ Espenson and Drew Goddard co-wrote the Buffy seventh season episode “Conversations with Dead People,” which won a Hugo Award in 2003.
+ Buffy: Dirty Girls (2003), Lies My Parents Told Me (2003), Never Leave Me (2002), Conversations with Dead People (2002), Selfless (2002); Angel: The Girl in Question (2004), Origin (2004), Why We Fight (2004), Damage (2004), Lineage (2003).
+ Most recently he co-wrote The Cabin in the Woods with Joss Whedon and then directed it. No release date has been set yet due to MGM’s financial woes. He’s since been hired to adapt the script for the novel Robopocalypse to be directed by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks.

Drew Greenberg

+ Worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., and Dexter. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the first season of Dexter.
+ Firefly: Safe (2002); Buffy: Empty Places (2003), The Killer in Me (2003), Him (2002), Entropy (2002), Older and Far Away (2002), Smashed (2001)
+ Probably the most ‘meh’ writer on the staff, he was working as a writer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and has since moved onto Warehouse 13.

Today is the anniversary of an important day. Now this may come as a shock to some of you, prostate and forgive me when you realize what this means, allergy but today marks 17 years since The X-Files premiered on FOX way back in 1993. Yes, sanitary that means we’re old. So, to celebrate, and because it’s season premiere week, we’re looking to where the crew are today.

Frank Spotnitz

+ Producer, Writer, and two-time Director for X-Files. Spotnitz also worked on Millenium, The Lone Gunmen, and Night Stalker. Plus, you know, both X-Files movies, too.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 48 episodes of X-Files: End Game (1995), Nisei (1995), 731 (1995), Piper Maru (1996), Apocrypha (1996), Tunguska (1996), Terma (1996), Memento Mori (1997), Tempus Fugit (1997), Max (1997), Detour (1997), Patient X (1998), The Red and the Black (1998), Dreamland (1998), Dreamland II (1998), Two Fathers (1999), One Son (1999), Sein und Zeit (2000), Closure (2000), This Is Not Happening (2001), William (2002).
+ Nominated for an Emmy for his work on episode Memento Mori, plus a Golden Globe, Peabody, and three Emmys for the series.
+ Now he’s probably in a secret bunker working on the third X-Files movie along with Chris Carter for 2012. That and waiting for the end of days. He’s also working on the remake of 1983 film The Star Chamber.

Vince Gilligan

+ Producer, Writer, and two-time director for X-Files. He also worked on Chris Carter’s other series The Lone Gunmen. He also wrote the screenplay for Will Smith’s movie Hancock.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 30 episodes of X-Files: Pusher (23 February 1996), Paper Hearts (15 December 1996), Memento Mori (9 February 1997), Small Potatoes (20 April 1997), Christmas Carol (7 December 1997, Emily (14 December 1997), Bad Blood (22 February 1998), Folie a Deux (10 May 1998), Drive (15 November 1998), Je Souhaite (14 May 2000 and directed), John Doe (13 January 2002), Sunshine Days (12 May 2002 and directed).
+ He’s now the creator and writer for AMCs Emmy nominated series Breaking Bad. He was nominated for an Emmy for the pilot episode.

John Shiban

+ Writer/producer and one-time director for The X-Files. Shiban has also worked on The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Supernatural.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 24 episodes of X-Files: Leonard Betts (1997), Memento Mori (1997), Christmas Carol (1997), Emily (1997), All Souls (26 April 1998), The Pine Bluff Variant (1998), The Amazing Maleeni (2000), Badlaa (2001), Release ( 2002)
+ He shared in an Emmy nomination for the X-Files episode ‘Memento Mori’ and a 1998 Emmy for the series as well.
+ He’s joined Vince Gilligan series Breaking Bad as a writer for the second season and was nominated for a WGA Award for his episode ‘Phoenix’.
+ In August he was confirmed as a writer for the upcoming fourth season of Torchwood.

Glen Morgan; James Wong

+ Writer/Producers for X-Files, this duo writing team created some of the most famous episodes of the show. They also worked on 21 Jump Street, Space: Above and Beyond, Millenium, and The Others (short-lived and loved).
+ They also created the Final Destination series and wrote the scripts for The One, Willard, and Black Christmas.
+ Wrote/co-wrote 25 episodes of X-Files: Squeeze (1993), Ice (1993), Beyond the Sea (1994), Little Green Men (1994), One Breath (1994), Die Hand die verletzt (1995), Home (1996), The Field Where I Died (1996), Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996), Never Again (1997).
+ Sadly, I’m not sure what Glen Morgan is dong now. But James Wong is working on writing a remake of the Japanese film The Neighbor Number 13, which he will also direct.

Howard Gordon

+ Supervising Producer on The X-Files and wrote/co-wrote 20 episodes. He wrote one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and created his own show Strange World in 1999 with Tim Minear as a writer. He and Tim then went to work for two years on Angel.
+ Wrote X-Files episodes: Fallen Angel (1993), Nisei (1995), Grotesque (1996), Teliko (1996), Unrequited (1997), Synchrony (1997).
+ Gordon jumped ship in 2001 for FOX’s successful ‘24‘. He temporarily left 24 to re-join with Tim as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside. Starting in 2006, Gordon was 24‘s executive producer, show-runner, and sometimes writer.
+ It is said that Gordon is now working on a show about a US soldier and prisoner of war in Iraq called Homeland with fellow X-Files writer Alex Gansa.

Tim Minear

+ Wrote episodes for several television series including Lois and Clark, The X-Files, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse.
+ He then later went on a midnight stroll creating and joining a bunch of our short-lived but highly loved tv shows: Strange World (writer), Wonderfalls (writer), The Inside (creator, writer, director), Drive (creator, writer).
+ Wrote X-Files episodes: Mind’s Eye (1998), Kitsunegari (1998).
+ He’s now working as a writer and producer for FXs show Terriers.
+ For development, he’s supposedly working on a remake of Alien Nation for SyFy. Oh, and also has been tapped to lead Gene Roddenberry’s (Star Trek) scrapped series The Questor Tapes.

Darin Morgan

+ The younger brother of X-Files writer Glen Morgan, he became well known for writing some of the funnier episodes of the show. That and he played the Flukeman in episode ‘The Host’ as well as the lead in episode ‘Small Potatoes’. He also worked on Millenium.
+ Wrote X-Files episodes:  Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’ (1996), War of the Coprophages (1996), Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (1995), Humbug (1995).
+ He won an Emmy for his episode ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’.
+ Most recently he’s been a producer on FOX series Fringe.

And a special note for prolific X-Files director Kim Manners who passed away last year from cancer. He directed 52 episodes of The X-Files. He’ll be missed.