Zachary Adam Whedon (born August 14, 1979) is an American
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
,
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...
, and
comic book writer
A script is a document describing the narrative and dialogue of a comic book in detail. It is the comic book equivalent of a Television, television program teleplay or a film screenplay.
In comics, a script may be preceded by a plot outline, and ...
.
Early life
Whedon is from a family of writers: he is the son of screenwriter
Tom Whedon, grandson of screenwriter
John Whedon
John Ogden Whedon (November 5, 1905 – November 22, 1991) was an American screenwriter. He is best known for his writing for the television series ''The Donna Reed Show'' during the 1950s. Whedon also wrote for ''The Great Gildersleeve'' on ...
, and the brother of screenwriter/musician
Jed Whedon and producer/director/writer
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill Whedon (; born June 23, 1964) is an American filmmaker, composer, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television serie ...
.
He graduated in 2002 with a film degree from
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...
where he served as president of the
Eclectic Society.
Career
His first professional work in television was as a production assistant on his brother Joss' series ''
Angel
In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God.
Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles ...
''.
Whedon joined the crew of the
HBO western drama ''
Deadwood'' as an assistant to executive producer
David Milch
David Sanford Milch (born March 23, 1945) is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including ABC's ''NYPD Blue'' (1993-2005), co-created with Steven Bochco, and HBO's '' Deadwood'' (2004 ...
for the
first season in 2004. The series was created by Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Whedon returned as Milch's assistant for the
second season in 2005. He also became a writer for the
third and final season in 2006 when he co-wrote the episode "Amateur Night" with writer's assistant
Nick Towne
Nick Towne is an American television writer. He has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on '' Deadwood'' .
Biography
Towne joined the crew of HBO Western drama '' Deadwood'' as a writer's assistant for the second s ...
.
Whedon and the writing staff were nominated for a
Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.
Eligibility ...
for Outstanding Drama Series at the
February 2007 ceremony for their work on the third season.
He also wrote and acted in an episode of Milch's next series ''
John from Cincinnati''.
Alongside his brothers Joss and Jed, he co-created and co-wrote the parody musical ''
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog''. He has worked on the
FOX science-fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
series ''
Fringe
Fringe may refer to:
Arts
* Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, known as "the Fringe"
* Adelaide Fringe, the world's second-largest annual arts festival
* Fringe theatre, a name for alternative theatre
* The Fringe, the ...
'' and the
AMC drama
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''
Rubicon
The Rubicon ( la, Rubico; it, Rubicone ; rgn, RubicĂ´n ) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, just north of Rimini.
It was known as Fiumicino until 1933, when it was identified with the ancient river Rubicon, famously crossed by Julius Ca ...
''.
In Jan 2014,
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon comic book shops know ...
released ''
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind'', a six-issue
comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
series written by Whedon with art by
Georges Jeanty that continues the story of brother Joss's cult television show ''
Firefly
The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production ...
'', and its subsequent film adaptation ''
Serenity''. The comic is also
executive produced by Joss Whedon and continues the story roughly 39 weeks after the events of the film. He is also a producer of the
SundanceTV
Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and, w ...
drama
''The Red Road'' and the AMC drama
''Halt and Catch Fire''.
Personal life
In 2012, Whedon married screenwriter and playwright
Eliza Clark. The two met while writing for the TV series
''Rubicon''.
Filmography
Film
Director
* ''
Come and Find Me'' (2016)
Writer
* ''
Come and Find Me'' (2016)
Television
Writer
References
External links
*
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Wesleyan University alumni
Living people
1979 births
American television writers
American male television writers
American comics writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
American screenwriters
American film directors
Hugo Award-winning writers
Whedon family