Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach (creator of The Middleman), born October 28, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television screenwriter and Television producer|producer, best known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the American Broadcasting Corporation television series Lost, though he has also written for a number of other series including Charmed and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He received a BA in 1991 from Carnegie Mellon and has an MFA from USC.
In 2006, he left the Lost team and began working as a co-executive producer for Medium, as well entering the world of comics, with his own Viper Comics title, The Middleman. He also wrote the 2006 Super-Skrull for Marvel Comics, part of the company's Annihilation event, and the Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith limited series for the 2007 Annihilation: Conquest follow-up project. He is also writer of Dynamite Entertainment's four-issue limited series Classic Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse.
In 2008 ABC Family picked up his television series The Middleman, for which he is the writer and producer.
Writer filmography[]
- The Middle Man (2008) TV Series
- "The Pilot Episode Sanction" (Season 1, Episode 1)
- "The Sino-Mexican Revelation" (Season 1, Episode 3)
- Medium (2005) TV Series
- "Four Dreams Part 1" (Season 3, Episode 1) with Glenn Gordon Caron
- "Four Dreams Part 2" (Season 3, Episode 2) with Glenn Gordon Caron
- "Apocalypse, Push" (Season 3, Episode 11)
- "We Had A Dream" (Season 3, Episode 15)
- "1-900-LUCKY" (Season 3, Episode 18) with Robert Doherty
- "Head Games" (Season 3, Episode 20) with Robert Doherty & Moira Kirkland
- "Burn Baby Burn Part 1" (Season 4, Episode 7)
- "Burn Baby Burn Part 2" (Season 4, Episode 8) with René Echevarria
- Lost (2004) TV Series
- "House of the Rising Sun" (Season 1, Episode 6)
- "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" (Season 1, Episode 11)
- "Hearts and Minds" (Season 1, Episode 13) with Carlton Cuse
- "...In Translation" (Season 1, Episode 17) with Leonard Dick
- "Born to Run" (Season 1, Episode 22) (story)
- "Orientation" (Season 2, Episode 3) with Craig Wright
- "Collision (Season 2, Episode 8) with Leonard Dick
- Jake 2.0 (2003) TV Series
- episode "The Good, The Bad and The Geeky"
- episode "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot"
- episode "Get Foley"
- Boomtown (2002) TV Series (writer)
- Episode "Monsters Brawl"
- The Dead Zone (2002) TV Series (story) (episode 1.07 "Enemy Mind")
- The Chronicle (2001) TV Series
- episode "Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns"
- episode "Hot From the Oven"
- episode "The King is (Un) Dead"
- episode "Let Sleeping Dogs Fry"
- episode "Pig Boy's Big Adventure"
- episode "Touched by An Alien")
- Cops On the Edge: Episode 89 (2000)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) TV Series
- episode 3.07 "Sacrifice"
- Charmed (1998) TV Series
- episode 1.04 "Dead Man Dating"
- episode 1.11 "Feats of Clay"
- episode 1.16 "Which Prue Is It, Anyway?"
- episode 1.21 "Love Hurts"
- episode 2.05 "She's a Man, Baby, a Man!"
- episode 2.11 "Reckless Abandon"
- episode 2.17 "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans"
- Three (1998) TV Series
- episode "Breakout"
- episode "Emerald City"
- Van Helsing Chronicles (1997) (TV)
- Dark Skies (1996) TV Series (teleplay)
- episode "Hostile Convergence"
- The Pretender (1996) TV Series
- episode "The Better Part of Valor"
- episode "The Paper Clock"
- episode "Potato Head Blues"
- SeaQuest DSV (1993) TV Series
Comic bibliography[]
- Annihilation (comics)|Annihilation - Super-Skrull (2006) Marvel Comics Limited Series
- Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith (comics)|Wraith (2007) Marvel Comics Limited Series
- Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocolypse (2007) Dynamite Entertainment Limited Series
- The Middle Man (2005-present) Viper Comics Limited Series
References[]
- Radio Free Javi, personal website of Javier-Grillo Marxuach
- JAVIminions, Official fansite for Javier-Grillo Marxuach
- PopGurls Interview: Javier Grillo-Marxuach