The Simpsons: Recurring writers



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Adam I. Lapidus

Adam Lapidus is an American television writer, whose credits include Phil of the Future, Full House, Smart Guy, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck and the season four Simpsons episode, "The Front". Lapidus appeared on the DVD...

Al Jean

Al Jean (born January 9, 1961 Detroit, Michigan) is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. During his youth, Jean worked in his father's hardware store in Michigan. He attended the Roeper School in his youth,...

Andrew Kreisberg

Andrew Kreisberg (born April 23, 1971) is an American television writer. His first job was on the short-lived animated sitcom Mission Hill. Since its cancellation, he has written for Justice League, The Simpsons, Hope & Faith and Boston Legal....

Bill Oakley

Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American television writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. Along with his writing partner Josh Weinstein, Oakley was the executive producer and showrunner during the seventh and eighth seasons. Before...

Bill Odenkirk

Bill Odenkirk (born October 13, 1965 in Naperville, Illinois), is an American comedy writer. He is the brother of American comedian Bob Odenkirk, and worked as a writer, producer and actor on sketch comedy TV show Mr. Show with Bob and David, which...

Billy Kimball

Billy Kimball is an American writer and producer. He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Kimball began his career writing for the HBO series Not Necessarily the News. He was the...

Bob Bendetson

Bob Bendetson is an American television writer and producer. He has written for a number of TV series, including ALF, Home Improvement and two episodes for The Simpsons (season 12's "Simpsons Tall Tales" [the "Connie Appleseed" parody] and season 13...

Bob Kushell

Bob Kushell is a writer and producer for The Simpsons. As of December 2008, Kushell began hosting his own talk show, Anytime with Bob Kushell, on Crackle. Jake in Progress Hidden Hills Grounded for Life Normal, Ohio The First Gentleman 3rd Rock from...

Brent Forrester

Brent Forrester is an American television writer. He has written for The Ben Stiller Show, The Simpsons, Mr. Show with Bob and David, King of the Hill, The Office and Undeclared. Forrester also showed some voice talent by doing the voice of Leon the...

Brian Kelley

Brian Kelley is an American television writer. He has written for Conan O'Brien, SNL, Newsradio, Clerks, Futurama, Joey and The Simpsons. He has written the following episodes: He wrote the following episode: "Love's Labours Lost in Space"

Brian Scully

Brian Scully (born West Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American television writer and producer. He has written episodes for The Simpsons and Complete Savages. He has produced The Drew Carey Show and The Pitts. He is the older brother of long-time...

Carolyn Omine

Carolyn Omine is an American television writer. She has written for Full House, The Parent 'Hood and The Simpsons. She was credited as an executive producer by the Simpsons' 17th season, although this changed to a producer in the 18th. Omine has...

Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC. Before The Tonight Show, O'Brien was...

Dan Castellaneta

Daniel Louis "Dan" Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an American film, theatre and television actor, comedian, voice artist and television writer. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons,...

Dan Greaney

Dan Greaney is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons. He was hired during the show's seventh season, but left after season eleven. He returned to the Simpsons staff during the thirteenth season. According to the DVD...

Dan McGrath

Dan McGrath is an American television writer. He has written for Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Mission Hill (where he made a cameo appearance as a character in a parody of Ingmar Bergman films), The PJs and King of the Hill. He wrote (or co...

Dana Gould

Dana Gould (born August 24, 1964) is an American comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts. His upbringing in the "weird little" factory town and the backward eccentricities of his extended family lent themselves to his...

Daniel Chun

Daniel Chun is an American comedy writer. He now writes for The Simpsons, where he currently carries the title of co-executive producer. Chun has also contributed to TNR.com, 02138 Magazine, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Vitals...

David M. Stern

David M. Stern is an American television writer. He is the brother of actor Daniel Stern, and worked with his brother on The Wonder Years. He has also written several episodes of The Simpsons and Monk. He was also a production assistant on the film...

David Mirkin

David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer, known for his work on The Simpsons. He is a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University. He has won several...

David Richardson

David Richardson is a television writer who has written for The Simpsons (Homer Loves Flanders), Malcolm in the Middle, and Empty Nest. As writer:

David Sacks

David Sacks is a television writer and producer. His writing and producing credits include The Simpsons, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle, The Tick and Murphy Brown. The only Simpsons episode Sacks has written is the season six episode...

David X. Cohen

David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons, and he is the head writer and executive producer of Futurama. Cohen was born and known pre-Futurama as David...

Deb Lacusta

Deb Lacusta (born Deborah Lacusta in 1958) is an American television writer and the wife of The Simpsons star Dan Castellaneta (who voices Homer Simpson along with various other characters on the The Simpsons). She has co-written several episodes of...

Don Payne

Don Payne is a writer on The Simpsons. Many of his episodes are co-written with John Frink. Recently he has moved into screenwriting. So far he has written My Super Ex-Girlfriend and co-written Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He was...

Donick Cary

Donick Cary is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons, Just Shoot Me!, Complete Savages, Late Night with David Letterman and served as head writer on The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show. He also co-wrote the two hour 2005 TV...

Frank Mula

Frank Mula is an American television writer. He has written for Cosby, Madame's Place, Grand, The Simpsons and created the series, Local Heroes, which lasted 7 episodes. He has written the following episodes:

George Meyer

George A. Meyer (born 1956) is an American producer and writer. Raised in Tucson, Arizona in a Roman Catholic family, Meyer attended Harvard University. There, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in...

Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. Daniels said he became interested in comedy by watching Monty Python's Flying Circus as a child, as well as by reading books by humorist S. J. Perelman at age 11. Daniels...

Howard Gewirtz

Howard Gewirtz is an American television writer, whose credits include Taxi, The Larry Sanders Show, Just Shoot Me, Wings, Oliver Beene, Everybody Hates Chris and The Simpsons.

Ian Maxtone-Graham

Ian Maxtone-Graham (born on July 3, 1959 in New York City) is an American television writer and producer. He has written for Saturday Night Live (1992-1995) and The Simpsons (1995-present), and has also served as a co-executive producer and...

J. Stewart Burns

J. Stewart Burns is a television writer and producer most notable for his work on Unhappily Ever After, The Simpsons and Futurama. Noted in the DVD commentaries of The Deep South and Roswell That Ends Well, Stewart studied and has a M.S in...

Jace Richdale

Jace Richdale is an American producer and writer. He served as co-executive producer for seasons 5 and 6 of The Simpsons and wrote the season five episode "Burns' Heir". He was a part of the Simpsons writing staff during seasons 5, 6, 9 and 10....

James L. Brooks

James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York...

Jay Kogen

Jay Steven Kogen is an American comedy writer. He has co-written several episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons along with former writing partner Wallace Wolodarsky. Since then, he has written for several shows, including an Emmy Award...

Jeff Martin

Jeff Martin was a writer for The Simpsons during the first four seasons. He attended Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, as have many other Simpsons writers. He left along with most of the original staff in 1993, and has...

Jeff Westbrook

Jeff Westbrook is a TV writer best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama, for which he is a two-time winner of the WGA Award. Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful algorithms researcher. After majoring in physics and...

Jeffrey Ventimilia

Jeffrey Ventimilia is a television writer. Ventimilia wrote The Simpsons episodes "'Round Springfield" and "Simpson Tide" (with Joshua Sternin as his co-writer). Other credits include Murphy Brown, That '70s Show, and The Critic.

Jennifer Crittenden

Jennifer Crittenden (born 1969) is a television sitcom writer, who was educated at The Thacher School in Ojai, California and graduated from Wesleyan University. She has written episodes for several popular television shows of the 1990s, including...

Joel H. Cohen

Joel H. Cohen (born in Calgary) is a writer for Saturday Night Live, Suddenly Susan and The Simpsons. He is the older brother of one-time Simpsons writer Robert Cohen, who penned the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's". He also served as a script...

John Frink

John Frink (born 1959, Whitesboro, New York) is an American producer and writer who is most noted for having a namesake on The Simpsons. The character has existed long before Frink joined the writing staff. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston,...

John Swartzwelder

John Swartzwelder (born November 16, 1950) is an American comedy writer and novelist, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons, as well as a number of novels. He is credited with writing the largest number of The...

Jon Vitti

Jon Vitti is a writer who is most noted for his writing for the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age (2002)...

Jonathan Collier

Jonathan Collier is an American television writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons, Monk, and King of the Hill. He worked as an executive producer on Mike Reiss' DVD movie, "Queer Duck: The Movie". He attended and graduated from Harvard...

Josh Weinstein

Josh Weinstein (born May 5, 1966 in Virginia) is an American television writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. He attended St. Albans and Stanford University, where he was editor of the Stanford Chaparral. Along with his writing partner...

Joshua Sternin

Joshua Sternin is an American television writer. He wrote The Simpsons episodes "'Round Springfield" and "Simpson Tide" (with Jeffrey Ventimilia as his co-writer for both episodes). Other credits include Murphy Brown, That '70s Show, and The Critic....

Julie Thacker

Julie Thacker is an American television writer. She is married to Mike Scully, a Simpsons writer and producer, with whom she has worked on several projects. She has written for The Simpsons, and along with her husband has co-created The Pitts and...

Ken Keeler

Kenneth Keeler (Born 1961) is an American comic writer and producer. He has written for numerous TV series, most notably The Simpsons and Futurama. After graduating from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, he studied applied mathematics at Harvard...

Ken Levine

Ken Levine (born February 14, 1950) is a writer, director and producer in the television and film industry. Levine has worked on a number of television shows, including M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons, Wings, Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker,...

Kevin Curran

Kevin Curran is an American television writer. He has written for Late Night with David Letterman, Married...with Children, and The Simpsons. He was also the voice of Buck the Dog on Married...with Children (except for several episodes in which Buck...

Larry Doyle

Larry Doyle (born November 13, 1958 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American novelist, television writer and producer. Doyle grew up in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He graduated from Buffalo Grove High School in 1976. He attended the University of...

Marc Wilmore

Marc Wilmore is a television writer, producer, and actor. In the early 1990s, he was a writer for In Living Color, and became a regular cast member in the final (1993-1994) season. From 1999-2001, he served as a writer for the claymation series The...

Matt Groening

Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (pronounced /ˈgreɪnɪŋ/, GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The...

Matt Selman

Matthew "Matt" Selman has written for Seinfeld, The Simpsons and was one of eleven writers that worked on The Simpsons Movie. Selman is also the creator and writer of the icebox.com webtoon, "Superhero Roommate." Selman also contributed several...

Matt Warburton

Matt Warburton (born 1978) is an American television writer currently working on The Simpsons. In reference to Warburton, Current show runner Al Jean once joked that the show now has a writer younger than Bart. (One episode placed Bart Simpson's...

Michael Carrington

Michael Carrington is an American comic writer and voice actor best known for his work on the animated series The Simpsons. He co-wrote the episode "Homer's Triple Bypass" with Gary Apple and has provided occasional voicework, most notably as...

Michael Price

Michael Price is an American writer and producer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. Other television shows he has written for include The PJs, Teen Angel, Homeboys in Outer Space, The Newz and One Minute to Air. Price was also a writer and co...