Kenneth Biller

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Kenneth Biller
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Kenneth Biller at the Legend of the Seeker panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009
Born (1964-12-23) December 23, 1964 (age 58)
Occupation(s) Television producer, writer, director
Years active1992 present
Children2

Kenneth Todd Biller (born December 23, 1964) is a television producer, writer, director and editor. He has worked on a number of American television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210 , Star Trek: Voyager , Legend of the Seeker and Perception . During his time on Voyager, he rose from executive story editor during the first season up to executive producer in the final season, and was responsible for writing the episode which introduced the Borg into the show.

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Early life

Biller attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. [1]

Career

Biller's television career began in 1992 when he joined the crew of Beverly Hills, 90210 as an executive story editor. He also wrote for The X Files in 1993. [1]

In 1995, Biller joined the team at Star Trek: Voyager as an executive story editor. A year later, he became co-producer of the show and made producer a year after that. During the sixth season of the show he became co-executive producer, and was again promoted, this time to executive producer and showrunner for Voyager's seventh and final season. [1] He received writing credits on several episodes of the show, and directed a number of episodes including "Revulsion" and "One". [1] Biller wrote the episode "Unity" which featured the first appearance of the alien species the Borg in Voyager, who had previously appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine and the movie Star Trek: First Contact . [2]

In 2008, he was linked with a series based on the Terry Goodkind fantasy novel series Wizard's First Rule . [3] This became the series Legend of the Seeker , which was created by ABC Studios for broadcast syndication. Biller worked as one of several executive producers, including Sam Raimi.[ citation needed ] Biller has recently been writing for the TNT crime drama series Perception , including co-writing the pilot episode alongside fellow former Voyager writer Mike Sussman. [4] [5] Biller and Sussman collaborated on the creation of the series. [6]

Personal life

Biller is married, has a daughter and son, and lives in Los Angeles, California. [1]

Filmography

List of production credits
YearTitleNotes
1992 Beverly Hills, 90210 Writer (3 episodes), executive story editor (13 episodes)
1993 The X Files Writer "Eve"
1995 Hawkeye Writer "Fly with Me"
1995-2001 Star Trek: Voyager Writer (35 episodes), executive story editor (31 episodes), director (2 episodes), co-producer (36 episodes), producer (27 episodes), co-executive producer (26 episodes), supervising producer (26 episodes), executive producer (25 episodes)
1999 The Last Man on Planet Earth (TV movie)Writer, executive producer
2002 Dark Angel Director (2 episodes)
2002-2004 Smallville Writer (5 episodes), director (4 episodes), co-executive producer (44 episodes)
2004 North Shore Writer (2 episodes), director (2 episodes), co-executive producer (20 episodes)
2005-2006 E-Ring Writer (3 episodes), director "Acceptable Losses", co-executive producer (23 episodes)
2006-2007 Six Degrees Writer "Surstromming or a Slice", executive producer (12 episodes)
2008-2010 Legend of the Seeker Writer (26 episodes), executive producer (44 episodes)
2012-2015 Perception Writer (10 episodes), director (2 episodes), executive producer (6 episodes)
2017 Genius [7] Writer (10 episodes), executive producer (10 episodes)
2022 The Cleaning Lady Director (1 episode)

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