Christian Taylor (screenwriter)

Christian Taylor is an English-American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on the American television dramas Lost, Six Feet Under, Teen Wolf and Eye Candy.

Christian Taylor
Born	(1968-07-17) 17 July 1968 London, England
Occupation	Producer, screenwriter
Years active	1992–present

Early life

Taylor was born in London, moving to the United States to attend New York University.

Career

As a student at New York University, Taylor wrote and directed the thesis film, “The Lady in Waiting,” which won the Gold Medal for Best Dramatic Film at the 1992 Student Academy Awards and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.

Taylor began writing on the HBO drama Six Feet Under in 2001, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in 2002. Taylor's script for the season 2 episode, “In Place of Anger,” was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award in 2003.

He wrote, directed, and starred in the 2002 independent film, Showboy, which won the Douglas Hickox Award for best directorial debut at the British Independent Spirit Awards and was named Best Picture at the Milan International Film Festival.

In 2003, Taylor became a writer and producer on ABC's dramatic series Miracles, before beginning work on the first season of the network's breakout hit, Lost.

As a writer and supervising producer on Lost, Taylor won the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.[1]

In 2008, he co-created Fox's sci-fi crime drama New Amsterdam.

He went on to become head writer on Lucasfilm’s animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars writing episodes for the show’s third, fourth, and fifth seasons and receiving a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.

Taylor’s relationship with MTV began with the 2009 release of the horror miniseries, Valemont, which he wrote. He returned to MTV as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on Teen Wolf during the show’s second, third, and fourth seasons.

In 2014, Taylor was hired as the showrunner and executive producer for MTV’s drama-thriller series Eye Candy, starring Victoria Justice. Production began in New York City in September 2014, and the ten-episode first season was released in January 2015. He also is one of the three writers on the Netflix series Luke cage, which was released in 2018.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1990	If Only Forever	Yes	Yes	No	Short films / Also editor
1992	The Lady in Waiting	Yes	Yes	No
2002	Showboy	Yes	Yes	Co-Producer	Mockumentary co-directed with Lindy Heymann / Role: Himself
2013	The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box	No	Yes	No
TBA	Mariah Mundi and the Tablets of Destiny	No	Yes	No

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1995	Shooting Gallery	Yes	No	No	Episode: "Love Hurts"
2001-2002	Six Feet Under	No	Yes	Yes	Writer (3 episodes) / Producer (10 episodes)
2003	Miracles	No	Yes	Yes	Writer (2 episodes) / Producer (12 episodes)
2004-2005	Lost	No	Yes	Supervising	Writer (episode "White Rabbit") / Producer (11 episodes)
2008	New Amsterdam	No	Yes	No	Creator (8 episodes) / Writer (episode 'Pilot')
2009	Valemont	No	Yes	No	4 episodes
2011-2014	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	No	Yes	No	15 episodes
2012	Teen Wolf Revelations	No	No	Consulting	Episode "Origins"
2012-2014	Teen Wolf	Yes	Yes	Consulting & Co-Executive	Director (3 episodes) / Writer (3 episodes) / Producer (25 episodes) / Role: Thomas (2 episodes)
2015	Eye Candy	No	Yes	Executive	Developer (10 episodes) / Writer (3 episodes) / Producer (episode "K3U")
2016	Luke Cage	No	Yes	Co-Executive	Writer ( 2 episodes) / Producer (13 episodes)
2019	Treadstone	No	No	Co-Executive	3 episodes

References

1. "Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2007.

External links

• Christian Taylor on IMDb