Writers and directors - Where are they now?

[Allan]

So I was watching Dexter and noticed that Drew Z Greenberg is a producer on it. He's one in a long line of names I've been noticing popping up on credits elsewhere since Jossverse, so I figured I'd have a look to see who's been doing what since their time with the 'verse (so if they left early, they may have shows that ended before their Jossverse ones).

For the purpose of this, I'm ignoring cast members, since there's a thread dedicated to them. That, and putting this list together took me three and a half hours. IMDb really became my best friend while doing this!

Is there anything in particular by these guys that you like/don't like, or have some other opinion about?

Joss Whedon:
Executive Producer, Writer and Director: Dollhouse (upcoming)
Writer and Director: Goners (movie - upcoming)
Director: The Office
Voice Actor: Robot Chicken

Marti Noxon:
Executive Producer and Writer: Still Life; Point Pleasant; Brothers & Sisters; Private Practice
Consulting Producer and Writer: Prison Break; Grey's Anatomy

Jane Espenson:
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: Gilmore Girls; Tru Calling; The Inside; Jake in Progress; Battlestar Galactica
Consulting Producer: Andy Barker, P.I.
Writer: The O.C., The Batman

David Fury:
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: The Inside; Lost; 24
Actor: Bandwagon (movie)

Tim Minear:
Executive Producer and Writer: Wonderfalls; The Inside; Drive
Consulting Producer:Standoff

Doug Petrie:
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: Tru Calling; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Writer and Director: The 4400
Writer: The Robinsons: Lost in Space (unsold pilot); The Batman

David Greenwalt:
Executive Producer and Writer: Kidnapped; Moonlight
Executive Consultant and Writer: Surface
Consulting Producer: Eureka

Jeffey Bell:
Co-Executive Producer, Writer and Director: Alias
Executive Producer and Writer: Day Break

Mere Smith:
Producer and Writer: Rome
Co-Producer and Writer: Johnny Zero
Supervising Producer and Writer: Burn Notice

Elizabeth Craft:
Executive Producer and Writer: Women's Murder Club
Supervising Producer and Writer: The Shield

Sarah Fain:
Executive Producer and Writer: Women's Murder Club
Supervising Producer and Writer: The Shield

Rebecca Rand Kirshner:
Co-Executive Producer and writer: Gilmore Girls
Co-Producer and Writer: Las Vegas

Drew Z Greenberg:
Producer and Writer: Inconceivable; Dexter
Co-Producer and Writer: The OC
Executive Story Editor and writer: Smallville

Steven S DeKnight:
Co-Executive Producer, Writer and Director: Smallville

Drew Goddard:
Supervising Producer and Writer: Lost
Co-Producer and Writer: Alias
Writer: Untitled JJ Abrams project (movie)

Jim Kouf:
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: The Handler; Ghost Whisperer
Writer: Snow Dogs (movie); Taxi (movie); National Treasure (movie); National Treasure: Book of Secrets (movie - upcoming); A Fork in the Road (movie - upcoming)

James A Contner:
Director: The Division; Las Vegas; Jane Doe: Vanishing Act (TV movie); Point Pleasant; The Inside; McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty? (TV movie); Killer Instinct; In Justice; The Dresden Files; Jane Doe: Ties That Bind (TV movie); Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss (DVD movie); You've Got a Friend (TV movie); Shark Swarm (TV movie - upcoming)

David Solomon:
Co-Executive Producer and Director: Las Vegas; Kevin Hill
Director: Tarzan; Tru Calling; Burn Notice; Chuck; Big Shots; Private Practice
Executive Producer: Paycheck (movie)

David Grossman:
Co-Executive Producer and Director: Desperate Housewives
Director: George of the Jungle 2 (DVD movie); Threat Matrix; Skin; Tru Calling; CSI: Miami; North Shore; Dead Like Me; CSI: NY; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; The Bernie Mac Show; Malcolm in the Middle; Lost; Monk

Ben Edlund:
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: Point Pleasant; Supernatural
Writer: Point Pleasant; The Venture Bros; Pox (upcoming - movie)

Dean Batali:
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: That '70s Show
Writer: The 1/2 Hour News Hour

Rob Des Hotel:
Executive Producer and Writer: You've Reached the Elliots (unsold pilot)
Co-Executive Producer and Writer: That '70s Show; Happy Hour

Bruce Seth Green:
Director: Gilmore Girls; The Chronicle; Roswell

James Whitmore, Jr
Director: JAG, First Monday; Witchblade; Providence; Mr Sterling; Enterprise; 24; 10-8: Officers on Duty; Dead Like Me; Wanted; Cold Case; CSI: NY; Bones; Jericho; Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service; The Unit; Las Vegas

Terrence O'Hara:
Director: Numb3rs; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Standoff; Heroes; The Unit; Shark; Smallville; Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service

Skip Schoolnik:
Post-Production Producer:[/b] 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (TV movie)
Associate Producer: K-Ville

Bill L Norton:
Director: The Guardian; Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Medium; Threshold; Ghost Whisperer; Heartland; Lincoln Heights; The Unit

Michael Gershman:
Director and Cinematographer: Crossing Jordan
Director of Photography (Second Unit):[/b] We Were Soldiers (movie)

Vern Gillum:
Director: The Inside; Jag; Prison Break

Michael Grossman:
Director: One Tree Hill; Gilmore Girls; Las Vegas; Enterprise; Killer Instinct; Charmed; Private Practice; Zoey 101; The Dresden Files; Grey's Anatomy; Standoff; Eureka; Dirty Sexy Monkey

Tracey Forbes:
Executive Story Editor and Writer: ReGenesis
Writer: The Huntress; MythQuest; Tracker; Relic Hunter; Spider-Man: The New Animated Series; Falcon Beach

David Semel:
Executive Producer and Director: American Dreams; Life
Co-Executive Producer and Director: House MD; Heroes
Director: Boston Public; The Practice; Ally McBeal; Lone Star State of Mind (movie); Revelations (miniseries); Windfall; Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Shawn Ryan:
Executive Producer and Writer: The Shield; The Unit
Writer: The Good Things (movie)
Executive Producer: The Oaks (upcoming)

Frederick King Keller:
Supervising Producer and Director: Boomtown
Director: Robbery Homicide Division; John Doe; Vegas Dick (TV movie); Las Vegas; 24; Clubhouse; CSI: Miami; Eyes; House MD; Vanished; Day Break; Dirt; Raines; Numb3rs

Nick Marck:
Director: The Dead Zone; Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (TV movie); Skater Boys; Veronica Mars; Hidden Palms; Greek; Side Order of Life

Michael Lange:
Producer and Director: Greek
Director: Tucker; Titans; Roswell; Jumping Ship (TV movie); Maybe It's Me; Pasadena; Special Unit 2; Do Over; Black Sash; Method & Red; Everwood; Miss Match; Still Life; Point Pleasant; Reunion; Related; Psych; The OC; Brothers & Sisters; One Tree Hill; Eureka; Dirty Sexy Money

Ashley Gable:
Co-Producer and Writer: The Division; Clubhouse
Supervising Producer and Writer: Strong Medicine; Crossing Jordan
Writer: Xena: Warrior Princess; Soldier of Fortune, Inc; The Invisible Man; Family Law
Consulting Producer: New Amsterdam

Matt Kiene:
Executive Story Editor and Writer: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
Senior Consultant and Writer: Andromeda

Dan Vebber:
Co-Producer, Executive Story Editor and Writer: Futurama
Supervising Producer and Writer: American Dad
Writer: Daria; The 78th Annual Academy Awards

John T Kretchmer
Producer and Director: Special Unit 2
Director: Nash Bridges; Martial Law; Brimstone; Star Trek: Voyager; Dark Angel; The Lone Gunmen; The Chronicle; She Spies; Hunter; The Twilight Zone; One Tree Hill; A Fate Totally Worse Than Death (movie); Killer Instinct; Charmed; Psych; Veronica Mars; Hidden Palms; Army Wives; Burn Notice

Marita Grabiak:
Director: Smallville; Cold Case; Gilmore Girls; Wonderfalls; Everwood; Battlestar Galactica; Lost; The Inside; Alias; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Point Pleasant; One Tree Hill; Surfacel In Justice; Eureka; Drive

Ellen S Pressman
Producer and Director: Time of Your Life
Director: Arli$$; Hyperion Bay; Charmed; Felicity; Time of Your Life; Huff; Jack & Bobby; Everwood; Windfall

Daniel Attias
Executive Producer and Director: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Writer and Director: The Sopranos
Director: CSI: Miami; The OC; Line of Fire; Boston Legal; Huff; Alias; Lost; Six Feet Under; Commander in Chief; Deadwood; House MD; Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; Big Love; Entourage; Damages; The Wire; Zip (TV movie - upcoming)

Joe Reinkemeyer:
Executive Story Editor and Writer: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
Senior Consultant and Writer: Andromeda

Rick Rosenthal:
Producer and Director: Nearing Grace (movie); Point Pleasant
Supervising producer and Director: Strong Medicing
Director: Mr Sterling; She Spies; The Handler; Tru Calling; Point Pleasant; Reunion; Veronica Mars; Angel's Eyes; The Dresden Files; Smallville; Flash Gordon
Producer: Mean Creek (movie); Kabluey (movie)

Howard Gordon
Executive Producer and Writer: Ball & Chain (unsold pilot); 24
Consulting Producer and Writer: The Inside
Executive Producer: Strange World; Mystery Girl (unsold pilot); Queer Duck: The Movie (DVD movie); Company Man (unsold pilot); The Madness of Jane (upcoming)

Jeannine Renshaw
Co-Producer; Executive Story Editor and Writer: Charmed
Supervising Producer and Writer:Ghost Whisperer

Tracey Stern:
Producer and Writer: Leap Years; Desperate Housewives; The Book of Daniel
Supervising Producer and Writer: Angela's Eyes
Writer: Code Blue (computer game); Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; Touching Evil

David H Goodman:
Writer: Birds of Prey; Without a Trace

Scott Murphy:
Writer: Flash Gordon; Star Wars: Clone Wars (upcoming)

Thomas A Swyden
Writer: Xena: Warrior Princess; Soldier of Fortune, Inc

Jose Molina:
Writer: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; Without a Trace

Turi Meyer
Story Editor and Writer: Smallville
Director: Alien Express (TV movie)
Writer: Mutant X; Andromeda; Spider-Man 3 (computer game); Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (DVD movie)

David Straiton:
Director: Dead Like Me; Jake 2.0; Cold Case; North Shore; The 4400; Enterprise; Kevin Hill; Point Pleasant; Sex, Love & Secrets; Killer Instinct; In Justice; Blade: The Series; Eureka; The Dresden Files; The Black Donnellys; House MD; Standoff; Life; Las Vegas

Thomas J Wright:
Director: 10-8: Officers on Duty; Tarzan; Tru Calling; Smallville; Wanted; Threshold; Criminal Minds; Bones; One Tree Hill; Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service

Ty King:
N/A

Jefferson Kibbee:
N/A

Scott McGinnis:
N/A

RD Price:
N/A

[Lizzie]

Jane Espenson is great. Gilmore Girls and the O.C? Awesome. The GG episodes she did are great.

[Allan]

It was surprising to see how many times both The OC and Gilmore Girls came up on the list.

[Beck]

Um... do you really expect me to read that whole list? I honestly don't really think a lot about where all the writers are at now, except the ones who wrote a lot of the Buffy/Angel episodes like Time Minear, Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson etc.

[Lizzie]

Marti Noxon is writing for Private Practice? That might explain why I haven't been loving it!

[Allan]

admin said:

Um... do you really expect me to read that whole list? I honestly don't really think a lot about where all the writers are at now, except the ones who wrote a lot of the Buffy/Angel episodes like Time Minear, Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson etc.

Read it, Beck! I wasn't sure where to draw the line with the list, and in some cases there were writers who I thought did more episodes then they actually did, which surprised me (possibly due to late starts or early finishes). By the time I got through the BtVS people, I noticed how big the list was getting - but considering the amount of time it was taking, I wasn't about to delete work I'd already done.

I tried to put the more prolific people (while working with Joss, at least) toward the top, but if you want to find someone in particular, it's probably worth just doing a 'find' in your browser.

[shred]

I only notice the most proflic writers and I'm glad that some of my favourite writers, Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie are on some of my favourite shows like GG, PB, CSI, B&S and GA.

I'm also enjoying Marti Noxon's work on B&S.

[Forsaken]

Umm, What's "The Batman" ?

[Allan]

It's a Batman cartoon that's been running for the past few years. I was surprised to see that both Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie had written for it.