Javier Grillo-Marxuach
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Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach , born October 28, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
, is a television
screenwriter
and producer
, known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC
television series Lost
, as well as other series including Charmed
and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
as a supervising producer and writer for the first season in 2004. He returned as a supervising producer and writer for the second season in 2005. The writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony
for their work on the first and second seasons. The writing staff were nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony
for their work on the second and third seasons.
In 2006, he left the Lost team, and began working as a co-executive producer for Medium
, as well as entering the world of comics with his own Viper Comics
title, The Middleman
. He also wrote the 2006 Annihilation - Super-Skrull
limited series
for Marvel Comics
, part of the company's Annihilation
event, and the Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith limited series for the 2007 Annihilation: Conquest
follow-up project. He is also writer of Dynamite Entertainment
's four-issue limited series Classic Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse.
In 2008 the ABC Family
picked up his television series The Middleman
, for which he is the writer and producer. The series was not picked up for second season due to poor ratings.
In 2010, a pilot for "Department Zero" was moved to active production by ABC. The pilot is based upon work by Jonathan Maberry
.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
, is a television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
, known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
television series Lost
Lost (TV series)
Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
, as well as other series including Charmed
Charmed
Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...
and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
Early life
Grillo-Marxuach received a BA in 1991 from Carnegie Mellon and has an MFA from USC.Career
Grillo-Marxuach joined the crew of LostLost (TV series)
Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
as a supervising producer and writer for the first season in 2004. He returned as a supervising producer and writer for the second season in 2005. The writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony
Writers Guild of America Awards 2005
The 58th Writers Guild of America Awards, given on 4 February 2006, honored the best film and television writers of 2005.-Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana*Capote - Dan Futterman...
for their work on the first and second seasons. The writing staff were nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony
Writers Guild of America Awards 2006
The 59th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film and television writers of 2006.-Best Adapted Screenplay:The Departed - William Monahan...
for their work on the second and third seasons.
In 2006, he left the Lost team, and began working as a co-executive producer for Medium
Medium (TV series)
Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
, as well as entering the world of comics with his own Viper Comics
Viper Comics
Viper Comics, based in Dallas, Texas, has been an independent publisher of comic books and graphic novel trade paperbacks since 2003. Viper comic books are distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors and their graphic novels are distributed through Diamond, Ingram Books, Baker & Taylor, Inc., and...
title, The Middleman
The Middleman
The Middleman is a comic book series written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach with art by Les McClaine and published by Viper Comics. The series was initially intended to be a television pilot. Grillo-Marxuach decided he wanted to write a series that represented all of the things he grew up loving...
. He also wrote the 2006 Annihilation - Super-Skrull
Super-Skrull
The Super-Skrull is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.-Publication history:The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #18 The Super-Skrull (Kl'rt) is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.-Publication history:The...
limited series
Limited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
for Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
, part of the company's Annihilation
Annihilation (comics)
"Annihilation" was a 2006 crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics, highlighting several outer space-related characters in the Marvel Universe. The central miniseries was written by Keith Giffen, with editor Andy Schmidt.-Publication History:...
event, and the Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith limited series for the 2007 Annihilation: Conquest
Annihilation: Conquest
Annihilation: Conquest is a 2007-2008 Marvel Comics crossover storyline and the sequel to 2006's Annihilation. The series again focuses on Marvel's cosmic heroes defending the universe against the Phalanx, now led by Ultron...
follow-up project. He is also writer of Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book company that primarily publishes licensed franchises of adaptations of other media. These include adaptations of film properties such as Army of Darkness, Terminator and RoboCop, literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in...
's four-issue limited series Classic Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse.
In 2008 the ABC Family
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
picked up his television series The Middleman
The Middleman (TV series)
The Middleman is an American television series. The series, which was developed for television by Javier Grillo-Marxuach for ABC Family, is based on the Viper Comics series, The Middleman, created by Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine...
, for which he is the writer and producer. The series was not picked up for second season due to poor ratings.
In 2010, a pilot for "Department Zero" was moved to active production by ABC. The pilot is based upon work by Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of the Pine Deep Trilogy, a series of supernatural horror novels...
.
Filmography
Television work:- "Department Zero" (2010) TV Pilot
- The MiddlemanThe Middleman (TV series)The Middleman is an American television series. The series, which was developed for television by Javier Grillo-Marxuach for ABC Family, is based on the Viper Comics series, The Middleman, created by Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine...
(2008) TV Series- "The Pilot Episode Sanction" (Season 1, Episode 1)
- "The Sino-Mexican Revelation" (Season 1, Episode 3)
- MediumMedium (TV series)Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
(2005) TV Series- "Four Dreams Part 1" (Season 3, Episode 1) with Glenn Gordon CaronGlenn Gordon CaronGlenn Gordon Caron is an American television writer, director and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.-Bio:...
- "Four Dreams Part 2" (Season 3, Episode 2) with Glenn Gordon CaronGlenn Gordon CaronGlenn Gordon Caron is an American television writer, director and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.-Bio:...
- "Apocalypse, Push" (Season 3, Episode 11)
- "We Had A Dream" (Season 3, Episode 15)
- "1-900-LUCKY" (Season 3, Episode 18) with Robert Doherty
- "Head Games" (Season 3, Episode 20) with Robert Doherty & Moira Kirkland
- "Burn Baby Burn Part 1" (Season 4, Episode 7)
- "Burn Baby Burn Part 2" (Season 4, Episode 8) with René EchevarriaRené EchevarriaRené Echevarria is an American-Cuban screenwriter and film producer.-Screenwriter career:Echevarria began his career as an amateur screenwriter submitting unsolicited scripts to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After using a few of his stories, they hired him as a writer. He then...
- "Four Dreams Part 1" (Season 3, Episode 1) with Glenn Gordon Caron
- LostLost (TV series)Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
(2004) TV Series- "House of the Rising SunHouse of the Rising Sun (Lost)"House of the Rising Sun" is the sixth episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Michael Zinberg and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It first aired on October 27, 2004 on ABC....
" (Season 1, Episode 6) - "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy IssuesAll the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" is the eleventh episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It first aired on December 8, 2004, on the American Broadcasting Company...
" (Season 1, Episode 11) - "Hearts and MindsHearts and Minds (Lost)"Hearts and Minds" is the 13th episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Carlton Cuse and Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It first aired on January 12, 2005 on ABC...
" (Season 1, Episode 13) with Carlton CuseCarlton CuseCarlton Cuse is an AmericanEmmy Award winning screenwriter and producer, most famous as executive producer andscreenwriter for the American television series Lost for... - "...In Translation" (Season 1, Episode 17) with Leonard DickLeonard DickLeonard Dick is an award-winning television writer and producer who is currently writing for The Good Wife .Leonard was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended high school at Upper Canada College, where he was elected head of Howard's House, and thus served on the Board of Stewards.Leonard attended...
- "Born to RunBorn to Run (Lost)"Born to Run" is the 22nd episode of the first season of Lost. It was directed by Tucker Gates, written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and based on a story by Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It first aired on May 11, 2005, on ABC. The character Kate Austen is featured in the episode's flashbacks...
" (Season 1, Episode 22) (story) - "OrientationOrientation (Lost)"Orientation" is the third episode of the second season of Lost and the 28th episode overall. The episode was directed by Jack Bender, and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Craig Wright...
" (Season 2, Episode 3) with Craig WrightCraig Wright (playwright)Craig Wright is an American playwright and Emmy-nominated television writer.-Biography:Born in 1965 in Puerto Rico, Wright attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota and went on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities... - "CollisionCollision (Lost)"Collision" is the 33rd episode of Lost and the eighth episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Leonard Dick. It first aired on November 23, 2005 on ABC...
" (Season 2, Episode 8) with Leonard DickLeonard DickLeonard Dick is an award-winning television writer and producer who is currently writing for The Good Wife .Leonard was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended high school at Upper Canada College, where he was elected head of Howard's House, and thus served on the Board of Stewards.Leonard attended...
- "House of the Rising Sun
- Jake 2.0Jake 2.0Jake 2.0 is an American science fiction television series originally broadcast on UPN in 2003. The series was canceled on January 14, 2004 due to low ratings, leaving four episodes unaired in the United States. In the United Kingdom, all the episodes aired on Sky1...
(2003) TV Series- episode "The Good, The Bad and The Geeky"
- episode "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot"
- episode "Get Foley"
- BoomtownBoomtownA boomtown is a community that experiences sudden and rapid population and economic growth. The growth is normally attributed to the nearby discovery of a precious resource such as gold, silver, or oil, although the term can also be applied to communities growing very rapidly for different reasons,...
(2002) TV Series (writer)- Episode "Monsters Brawl"
- The Dead ZoneThe Dead Zone (TV series)The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...
(2002) TV Series (story) (episode 1.07 "Enemy Mind") - The ChronicleThe Chronicle (TV series)The Chronicle is the name of a science fiction television series on SCI FI . The series is based on the "News from the Edge" series of novels by Mark Sumner, a St. Louis, Missouri based author. The show was originally sold to NBC, which shot the pilot, then later found a home with The Sci-Fi...
(2001) TV Series- episode "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns"
- episode "Hot From the Oven"
- episode "The King is (Un) Dead"
- episode "Let Sleeping Dogs Fry"
- episode "Pig Boy's Big Adventure"
- episode "Touched by An Alien")
- Cops On the Edge: Episode 89 (2000)
- Law & Order: Special Victims UnitLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
(1999) TV Series- episode 3.07 "Sacrifice"
- CharmedCharmedCharmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...
(1998) TV Series- episode 1.04 "Dead Man Dating"
- episode 1.11 "Feats of Clay"
- episode 1.16 "Which Prue is it, Anyway?"
- episode 1.21 "Love Hurts"
- episode 2.05 "She's a Man, Baby, A Man!"
- episode 2.11 "Reckless Abandon"
- episode 2.17 "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans"
- ThreeThree (TV series)Three was a drama television series which aired on The WB from February 2, 1998 to March 23, 1998.The plot of the show was centered around three thieves, who all participated in crimes that brought no legitimate suffering to others...
(1998) TV Series- episode "Breakout"
- episode "Emerald City"
- Van Helsing Chronicles (1997) (TV)
- Dark SkiesDark SkiesDark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction shows, resulting in NBC commissioning this...
(1996) TV Series (teleplay)- episode "Hostile Convergence"
- The PretenderThe Pretender (TV series)The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work...
(1996) TV Series- episode "The Better Part of Valor"
- episode "The Paper Clock"
- episode "Potato Head Blues"
- SeaQuest DSVSeaQuest DSVseaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...
(1993) TV Series- episode 3.4 "Destination Terminal"
- episode 3.7 "Equilibrium"
- episode 3.13 "Weapons of War"
External links
- Radio Free Javi, personal website of Javier-Grillo Marxuach
- JAVIminions, Official fansite for Javier-Grillo Marxuach
- PopGurls Interview: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
- http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2008/07/harmonies-of-de.html Zap2it TV News