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Rafe Judkins | |
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| Born | Rafe Lee Judkins January 8, 1983 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Television writer, television producer, screenwriter |
Rafe Lee Judkins (born January 8, 1983) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is the showrunner for the Amazon Prime Video television series The Wheel of Time, has several writing credits for TV, and appeared as a contestant on the 11th season of Survivor , which took place in Guatemala.
Judkins was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a large Mormon family. He attended Brown University. [1]
Judkins participated in Survivor: Guatemala in the Fall of 2005. [2] [3]
After Survivor, Judkins moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting. He was staffed on the short-lived Christian Slater drama, My Own Worst Enemy , and then was a writer on the third season of Chuck . [4] After a stint on Hemlock Grove he began writing for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. . [5]
On April 20, 2017, it was announced that Judkins would be showrunning the TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time . [6]
In May 2018, it was announced that Judkins was showrunning and writing The Last Amazons alongside director/executive producer Ava DuVernay, a television show about the real Amazon women in Ancient Greece. [7]
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| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writer | Producer | Other | ||||
| 2005 | Survivor: Guatemala | No | No | Yes | Contestant, finished in 3rd place | |
| 2006 | The 4400 | No | No | Yes | Writers' assistant | |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | No | No | Yes | Script coordinator | |
| 2008 | My Own Worst Enemy: Conspiracy Theory | Yes | No | No | Wrote: "Dementia" | |
| 2008 | My Own Worst Enemy | Yes | No | Yes | Staff writer, wrote 2 episodes | |
| 2010–12 | Chuck | Yes | No | Yes | Wrote 11 episodes Also story editor and executive story editor | [8] |
| 2013 | Hemlock Grove | Yes | Yes | No | Co-producer, wrote: "What Peter Can Live Without" | [8] |
| 2013–15 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Yes | Yes | No | Wrote 5 episodes Supervising producer and producer | [8] |
| 2019 | Honor | Yes | Executive | No | Short film | |
| 2021–present | The Wheel of Time | Yes | Executive | Yes | Developer | [9] |
| 2022 | Uncharted | Yes | No | No | Screenplay and story by | [10] |
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