Jeffrey Alan Schechter

Last updated

Jeffrey Alan Schechter (usually credited as Jeff Schechter) is a screenwriter whose work has been nominated for two Emmy awards, a Writers Guild of America award, and a Writers Guild of Canada award. His writing credits include Strange Days at Blake Holsey High , Overruled! , the Disney Channel original film Brink! , Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite and Dennis the Menace Strikes Again . [1] In 2015, he created the ABC Family science fiction crime drama Stitchers . [2]

Contents

Early life and education

Schechter was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School and is a graduate from the film program at SUNY Purchase. [3]

Filmography

YearTitleCredited asNotes
DirectorProducerWriter
1996 Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite NoNoYes
1998 Dennis the Menace Strikes Again NoNostory
2000 Beethoven's 3rd NoNoYes
2004 Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot NoNoYes
2005 The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie NoNoYes
2011 Breakaway NoNoYes
2017 Undercover Grandpa NoNoYes

Television

The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

YearTitleCredited asNotes
CreatorDirectorExecutive
producer
Writer
1998 Brink! NoNoYesTelevision film
1999 Animorphs NoNoNoYes (1)
1999 The Famous Jett Jackson NoNoNoYes (1)
2000 The Other Me NoNoYesTelevision film
2001The TrackerYesNoNoTelevision film
2003–05 Strange Days at Blake Holsey High NoYes (1)NoYes (9)
2004–06 Martin Mystery NoNoNoYes (6)
2005Out of the WoodsNoNoYesTelevision film
2005 Get Ed NoNoNoYes (2)
2006 Totally Spies! NoNoNoYes (2)
2006 Jane and the Dragon NoNoNoYes (1)
2006 Erky Perky NoNoNoYes (unknown episodes)
2006 Team Galaxy NoNoNoYes (unknown episodes)
2007 Di-Gata Defenders NoNoNoYes (2)
2008–09 Freefonix NoNoNoYes (5)
2009 Overruled! YesNoYesYes (14)
2013Exploding SunNoNoYesTelevision film
2013 The Hunters NoNoscreenplayTelevision film
2014 Transporter: The Series NoNoNoYes (2)
2015 Stitchers YesNoYesYes (9)

Related Research Articles

Alan Smithee is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when directors, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that they had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the movie or even to acknowledge being the project's director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Writers Guild of America Awards</span> Award for film, television, radio and video game writing

The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Writers' Guild of Great Britain</span> Trade union for professional writers

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Katims</span> American television writer, producer, and playwright

Jason Katims is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known as the creator of several television series, including Relativity (1996), Roswell (1999–2002), Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), Parenthood (2010–2015), About a Boy (2014–2015) and Rise (2018).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madelyn Pugh</span> American screenwriter

Madelyn Pugh, sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was a television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeffrey Lieber</span> American screenwriter

Jeffrey Michael Lieber is an American screenwriter for both television and film. He is credited as a co-creator of the television series Lost. In addition to writing for television and film, Lieber blogged at the website dailykos. His blog posts appeared as "diaries" rather than front-page posts and typically had a satirical take on the news.

Bryan Gordon is an American film and television director, writer, actor and producer who is primarily known for directing comedy television shows.

A. Scott Frank is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Frank has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for Out of Sight (1998) and Logan (2017). His film work, credited and uncredited, extends to dozens of films. In recent years, he has worked for Netflix on television miniseries, most prominently writing and directing The Queen's Gambit.

Andrea Berloff is an American screenwriter, actress, director, and producer. Berloff is best known for writing the screenplays for the drama films World Trade Center and Straight Outta Compton. She received an Academy Award nomination for writing Straight Outta Compton.

Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto is an American author, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective (2014–present).

Joshua Brand is an American television writer, director, and producer who created St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure with his writing-and-producing partner John Falsey, with whom he worked through 1994. He was also a writer and consulting producer of FX's 2013–18 series The Americans.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alan Wenkus</span> American screenwriter and film producer

Alan Wenkus is an American screenwriter, film producer and a former VP of programming for Premiere Radio Networks. Wenkus has been nominated for several awards for his work in television and film including a Writers Guild of America Award, the NAACP Image Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He's best known for co-writing and Executive Producing Straight Outta Compton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeffrey Yohalem</span>

Jeffrey Yohalem is an American director and writer of video games. After graduating cum laude from Yale University with a degree in English literature, he joined the Ubisoft Montreal studio, working on the games Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Assassin's Creed II, before writing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Far Cry 3, Child of Light, and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. His most recent published project is Immortals Fenyx Rising, released in December 2020.

Jeffrey Stepakoff is an American television writer, producer, and author.

Mark Hudis is an American television writer and producer who has worked on a variety of shows including Cybill, That '70s Show, Nurse Jackie, True Blood and A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2010, his work on Nurse Jackie earned him both Writers Guild of America and Emmy Award nominations. Hudis attended Haverford College, a liberal arts school located outside of Philadelphia, and graduated in 1990.

Thomas Schnauz is an American television producer and television writer. His credits include The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Night Stalker, Reaper, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul.

<i>Stitchers</i> ABC television show

Stitchers is an American science fiction crime drama television series created by Jeffrey Alan Schechter. The show was picked up to series on September 29, 2014, and premiered on June 2, 2015, on ABC Family. In an October 2016 Facebook Live chat, it was announced that the series was renewed for a third season, which aired from June 5 to August 14, 2017. On September 15, 2017, Freeform canceled the series after three seasons.

Meg LeFauve is an American screenwriter and film producer. She is best known for writing the screenplays for the Pixar animated films Inside Out (2015) and its upcoming sequel Inside Out 2 (2024), and The Good Dinosaur (2015), the former of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Misan Sagay is a British-Nigerian screenwriter, best known for the 2013 film Belle.

Cord Jefferson is an American writer and director. After studying at the College of William & Mary he started a career in journalism and wrote for numerous publications before becoming an editor at Gawker until 2014.

References

  1. "Jeffrey Alan Schechter". writersstore.com.
  2. "Jeffrey Alan Schechter: Creating and Crafting "Stitchers" – Slice of SciFi". sliceofscifi.com. 31 July 2015.
  3. "Jeffrey Alan Schechter". donedealpro.com.