Chad Quandt | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, showrunner and television producer |
| Notable work | |
Chad Quandt is an American TV writer, producer, and showrunner. He is best known for his work on Star Trek: Prodigy and Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia ; he was also co-executive producer and co-showrunner of Wizards: Tales of Arcadia . [1] He received an Emmy Award for Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia [2] and a Peabody Award for Star Trek: Prodigy. [3]
Quandt was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and attended Indiana University, graduating cum laude with honors in telecommunications. [4] He pursued writing as a hobby in high school and college, but hadn't thought of it as a career until he took screenwriting classes at Indiana University and began performing stand-up comedy and writing for the college newspaper The Indiana Daily Student. [5] He also hosted The Friday Zone, a children's educational series, produced by PBS affiliate WITU. Against the advice of his parents, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in writing. [4]
In 2012, Quandt was attached to a live-action/CGI remake of The Brave Little Toaster from Waterman Entertainment, but it was not produced. [6]
In 2016, Quandt sold The Remember Hour, a comedic post-apocalyptic series framed as a puppet show, to Disney-owned Maker Studios as a web series for the channel Polaris. [7] [8] He also hosted numerous programs for the channel including The Daily Byte, Chad Chomp, REMAG, The Friend Zone, and The Holodeck.
He joined the writing staff of Guillermo del Toro’s animated supernatural fantasy series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia the same year. He is credited in 24 episodes, and he was nominated for an Annie Award,Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production in 2018 for the episode "Escape from the Darklands"; [9] the episode also won a Kidscreen Award for Best Writing. [10] He also won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program in 2018 and was nominated in 2019. [2] [11]
Quandt was a story editor and writer on Unikitty! , a spinoff of the animated film The Lego Movie , from 2017 to early 2019. [12]
Quandt returned to Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia franchise as co-executive producer and co-showrunner for the follow-up series, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia, in 2020. [1]
Quandt was a producer and staff writer for Star Trek: Prodigy. He wrote the episodes "Starstruck" and "Ghost in the Machine". [13] The series was awarded a Peabody Award in 2024. [14]
Quandt developed a pitch based on the Adult Swim short Learning With Pibby: Apocalypse, created by Dodge Greenley. [15] On October 3, 2023, Greenley announced Adult Swim declined to pick up the series. [16]
With Lauren Montgomery, Quandt developed an adaptation of The Search for WondLa , based on the novel of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi, for Apple TV+, for which he is credited with Additional Writing Materials. [17] As of 2025, he is story editor on Avatar: Seven Havens. [18]
Since 2010, Quandt has hosted and produced the podcast Goosebuds, a comedy discussion about young adult books and media including Goosebumps and Animorphs .
Quandt is one of the credited writers of the Dungeons & Dragons module Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, set in the Icewind Dale section of the Forgotten Realms, published in 2020. [19]
Quandt wrote Cat Ninja Comics Issues #36 and #37 for Epic!, and created the independent comic Rite of Rumble, a wrestling series set in an alternative post-Y2K United States, with illustrator Kayla Cline. [20]
| Year | Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 2010–2015 | Dick Figures | actor (4 episodes) |
| 2013 | Dick Figures: The Movie | actor |
| 2014–2018 | Bee and PuppyCat | actor (1 episode) |
| 2014 | Continue? | actor (1 episode) |
| 2015 | Like, Share, Die | actor (1 episode) |
| 2016–2018 | Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia | Writer (52 episodes) |
| 2016–2017 | The Remember Hour | Creator (16 episodes) |
| 2017 | Teen Titans Go! | Writer (1 episode) |
| 2018–2020 | Unikitty! | Writer (56 episodes) |
| 2020 | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia | Co-Showrunner, Co-Executive Producer, Writer (10 episodes) |
| 2021–2023 | Star Trek: Prodigy | Producer, Writer (40 episodes) |
| 2022–2023 | The Search for WondLa | Additional Writing Materials |
| 2024–Present | Avatar: Seven Hevens | Story Editor |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kidscreen Awards | Best Writing | Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia | Won | [21] |
| Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production | Nominated | [22] | ||
| Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program | Won | [23] [24] | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program | Nominated | [11] | ||
| 2021 | Outstanding Children's Animated Series | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia | Nominated | [25] | |
| Kidscreen Awards | Best New Series | Won | [26] | ||
| 2022 | Children's and Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Animated Series | Star Trek: Prodigy | Nominated | [27] |
| 2023 | Television Critics Association Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming | Nominated | [28] | |
| 2024 | Peabody Awards | Peabody Institutional Award | Star Trek , Star Trek: Prodigy | Won | [14] |
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