Drew Goddard

Writer-producer-director Drew Goddard was a guiding force behind some of the most popular and critically praised series and films of the early millennium, including "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The WB/UPN, 1997-2003), "Lost" (ABC, 2004-2010), "Cloverfield" (2008), "The Cabin in the Woods" (2011), "Daredevil" (Netflix, 2015-2018) and "The Good Place" (NBC, 2016-2020). Born Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard on February 26, 1975 in Houston, Texas, he was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico by his parents, who were educators. After graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1997, Goddard headed to Los Angeles, where he worked in various entertainment industry jobs while pursuing his goal of becoming a screenwriter. An unsolicited script he wrote for the HBO series "Six Feet Under" (2001-2005) made its way to producer Joss Whedon, who hired Goddard as a staff writer for his popular young adult series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." He would pen five episodes for the program, including the Hugo Award-winning "Conversations with Dead People" in 2003, before moving to its spin-off series, "Angel" (The WB, 1999-2004), where he served as both writer and executive story editor. When "Angel" ran its course, Goddard was hired by J.J. Abrams to write and co-produce his espionage series "Alias" (ABC, 2001-2006), which led to a stint as writer and co-executive producer on Abrams' cult science fiction series, "Lost". His work on the latter series netted an Emmy nomination and multiple nods from both the Writers and Producers Guild, and also served as the launching pad for his feature film career when Abrams tapped him to write "Cloverfield." The found footage thriller, about a monster loose in New York City, was the subject of a huge and complex promotional campaign, which helped to make it not only a sizable box office hit but also the foundation for a modest franchise of horror-science fiction films, including 2016's "10 Cloverfield Lane," all with Goddard as executive producer. The s