BIOGRAPHY

JOSS WHEDON (Writer / Director) received an Oscar® nomination as co-writer of the record-breaking hit Toy Story. He is also the Emmy-nominated creator of the television sensations Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, as well as Firefly, on which his feature film directorial debut, Serenity, is based.

Buffy earned Whedon the SFX Millennium Readers Award for creating “The Best Show of All Time.” Through all his success on television and in film, Whedon has also kept his hand in the comic book industry, creating Fray for Dark Horse Comics. He is currently writing Astonishing X-Men, a new extension of the singularly successful “X-Men” series.

A graduate of Wesleyan University in film studies, Joss began his television writing career as a staff writer on the ABC comedy series Roseanne before becoming a producer on the sitcom Parenthood. In addition to Toy Story, his feature film writing credits include Alien: Resurrection and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also contributed (uncredited) to X-Men, Speed and Twister.

The son of TV-writer Tom Whedon (The Dick Cavett Show, Benson, Alice) and grandson of TV-writer John Whedon (The Donna Reed Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), the third-generation Whedon expanded his range of talents to include music: he composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the musical Buffy episode “Once More, With Feeling,” which he also directed. The CD of original songs from that landmark episode has sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.

Whedon resides in Los Angeles with his family.