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Christian Taylor

Christian Taylor is an English-Argentine-American screenwriter, producer, and director known for his work on the American television dramas Lost, Six Feet Under, Teen Wolf, Resident Alien, and Eye Candy. Christian is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and actively works to encourage representation across Film and TV storytelling.

Taylor was born in London to an Argentine father and British mother. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Mexico City for three years. On their return to London, they lived in the diverse community of Notting Hill. As a teenager, he went to Bedales School in Hampshire where both Daniel Day-Lewis and Minnie Driver attended. He did his art foundation course at the Central School of Art and Design and then moved to the United States after being accepted by New York University.

As a student at New York University, Taylor wrote and directed his thesis film, The Lady in Waiting, which won the Gold Medal for Best Dramatic Film at the Student Academy Awards and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.

Taylor was creatively integral to the development and shooting of the pilot of the HBO drama Six Feet Under in 2001, and went on to be a writer and a producer, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in 2002. Taylor's script for the season 2 episode, "In Place of Anger," was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award in 2003.

He co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 2002 independent Mockumentary film, Showboy, which won the Douglas Hickox Award for best directorial debut at the British Independent Film Awards and was named Best Picture at the Milan International Film Festival.

In 2003, Taylor became a writer and producer on ABC's dramatic series Miracles, before beginning work on the first season of the network's breakout hit, Lost. As there was no Pilot shot, Taylor was one of only four writers brought on to brainstorm and establish what the show would eventually become. As a writer and supervising producer on Lost, Taylor won the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.

In 2008, he co-created Fox's sci-fi crime drama New Amsterdam.

He went on to become the head writer on Lucasfilm's animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars writing episodes for the show's third, fourth, and fifth seasons and received a 2015 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.

Taylor's relationship with MTV began with the 2009 release of the horror miniseries, Valemont, which he wrote and co-directed.

He returned to MTV as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on Teen Wolf during the show's second, third, and fourth seasons directing the fan-favorite episode called "Motel California".

In 2014, Taylor developed and was showrunner and Executive Producer of the MTV drama-thriller series Eye Candy, starring Victoria Justice. Production began in New York City in September 2014, with Jax Media and the ten-episode first season was released in January 2015. The hugely popular show was canceled after MTV decided to stop producing or programming live-action TV.

He went on to become Co-EP and writer on the Marvel series Luke Cage, which was released in 2018.

He was asked to return to Lucasfilm and wrote two episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch for season one of their animation series.

He has been working on the critically acclaimed and hugely popular Resident Alien for Syfy and Amblin TV. Resident Alien received the honor of Best Cable Comedy Series from the Hollywood Critics Association for season one.

Taylor is developing several pilots and recently completed a WW2 resistance film called The Degenerate which he will direct.

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Crew Credits

Wolf Pack (2023)
Show crew as Executive Producer (8 episodes)
Episode crew as Director (2 episodes)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Episode crew as Writer (2 episodes)
  • Episode 1x08: Reunion (Jun 18, 2021)
  • Episode 1x04: Cornered (May 21, 2021)
Resident Alien (2021)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer
Show crew as Executive Producer
Episode crew as Writer (2 episodes)
Treadstone (2019)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer (3 episodes)
Marvel's Luke Cage (2016)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer (5 episodes)
Episode crew as Writer (2 episodes)
Eye Candy (2015)
Show crew as Executive Producer
Show crew as Developer
Episode crew as Teleplay (2 episodes)
  • Episode 1x02: BRB (Jan 19, 2015)
  • Episode 1x01: K3U (Jan 12, 2015)
Episode crew as Writer
  • Episode 1x10: A4U (Mar 16, 2015)
Teen Wolf (2011)
Show crew as Co-Executive Producer
Show crew as Consulting Producer
Episode crew as Writer (3 episodes)
Episode crew as Director (3 episodes)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Episode crew as Writer (15 episodes)
New Amsterdam (2008)
Show crew as Creator
Show crew as Executive Producer
Lost (2004)
Show crew as Supervising Producer
Episode crew as Writer
Miracles (2003)
Episode crew as Writer (2 episodes)
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