Category:Writer
The wonderful thing about Supernatural is that it attracts the kind of writer that has this vast love for genre and horror. People that come in to interview for this job who have this encyclopedia knowledge. We just sit and chew the shit for an hour about this sort of thing. It’s sort of like having coffee with geeky friends.
This section has entries for all the people who have had a writing credit on Supernatural. The Writer and Director Episode Guide lists each episode by director and writer.
The Supernatural writing team and post-production is based in LA while the show, except for 1.01 Pilot, is filmed in Vancouver.
Following a large roster of writers in season one, Supernatural has had a core group of around eight writers each season. Writing on a TV show is not a solo effort - story arcs and individual episodes will be developed and broken in collaboration the writers' room. Eric Kripke, Bob Singer and Sera Gamble in particular have had a much greater input and influence on the scripts than their individual writing credits indicate. In addition story editors and writers assistants have input at different parts of the scripts development. Some writers assistants have gained writing credits on the show including Emily McLaughlin, Jenny Klein and Jackson Stewart. Stunt coordinator Lou Bollo also has co-written the story for two episodes.
It is normal practice for TV writers and directors to be given a producer or executive producer credit as they become more senior in the production team, although not all of these will actually take on roles more broadly involved in the shows production.
Some regular writers who have moved on from Supernatural include:
- John Shiban - writer and producer on Legend of the Seeker and Breaking Bad.
- Raelle Tucker - writer and producer on True Blood.
- Cathryn Humphris - writer and executive story editor on Mad Men and is currently a supervising producer on Elementary.
- Eric Kripke - left as showrunner and writer after season five. His new series Revolution began on NBC in 2012.
- Sera Gamble - left as showrunner and writer after season seven.
- Ben Acker and Ben Blacker - left after season seven.
- Ben Edlund - left after season eight to go write for Revolution with Eric Kripke.
Jeremy Carver left at the end of season five to become writer and executive producer on the U.S. version of Being Human, but returned as showrunner in season eight.
Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder left after season six to be creators and writers of Ringer for the CW, but have returned as writers for season nine.
Well, there's only one explanation. Obviously I'm a god... I'm definitely a god. A cruel, cruel, capricious god.
– Chuck Shurley aka Carver Edlund, 4.18 The Monster At The End Of This Book
Supernatural's meta commentary on writers took the form of Chuck Shurley who we meet in 4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book. His name Carver Edlund was a portmanteau of Jeremy Carver and Ben Edlund. (In the same episode writers Sera Gamble and Julie Siege appear in the form of the Publisher who was called Sera Seige in the script Source). Chuck is an author who wrote the Supernatural book series, and continued to write even though the books were no longer being published. Unbeknownst to him, the inspiration of the books was divine - as he is a prophet of God. At the end of season five, it is suggested that Chuck may in fact be God.
The metaphor is of the writer as creator. The character is an avatar for Kripke himself (Source) and is used to comment on the text and process of writing with reference to specific past episodes of the show. This metaphor would also hold then that God, the creator, was also the writer. We have a trinity here - Chuck, Kripke and God.
In 6.15 The French Mistake, Sera Gamble was portrayed as the new showrunner no-one would listen to, Bob Singer was the world weary producer/director and Eric Kripke was hoping to hit the big time with his new script Octacobra.
The following list contains people with story as well as episode credits for writing.
Season 1 Writers
- Eric Kripke
- Rachel Nave
- Bill Coakley
- Brad Buckner
- Eugenie Ross-Leming
- Cathryn Humphris
- David Ehrman
- John Shiban
- Raelle Tucker
- Richard Hatem
- Sera Gamble
- Ron Milbauer
- Terri Hughes Burton
- Trey Callaway
- Daniel Knauf
- Patrick Sean Smith
Season 2 Writers
- Eric Kripke
- Ben Edlund
- Cathryn Humphris
- John Shiban
- Matt Witten
- Michael T. Moore
- Raelle Tucker
- Sera Gamble
Season 3 Writers
- Eric Kripke
- Ben Edlund
- Cathryn Humphris
- Emily McLaughlin
- Jeremy Carver
- Laurence Andries
- Robert Singer
Season 4 Writers
- Eric Kripke
- Andrew Dabb
- Daniel Loflin
- Ben Edlund
- Cathryn Humphris
- Jeremy Carver
- Julie Siege
- Lou Bollo
- Nancy Weiner
- Sera Gamble
- Trevor Sands
Season 5 Writers
- Eric Kripke
- Andrew Dabb
- Daniel Loflin
- Ben Edlund
- David Reed
- Eric "Giz" Gerwirtz
- Harvey Fedor
- Jenny Klein
- Jeremy Carver
- Julie Siege
- Nancy Weiner
- Rebecca Dessertine
- Sera Gamble
Season 6 Writers
- Sera Gamble
- Robert Singer
- Eric Kripke
- Andrew Dabb
- Ben Edlund
- Adam Glass
- Brett Matthews
- Daniel Loflin
- David Reed
- Eric Charmelo
- Nicole Snyder
- Jackson Stewart
- Jenny Klein
Season 7 Writers
- Sera Gamble
- Robert Singer
- Ben Edlund
- Adam Glass
- Andrew Dabb
- Daniel Loflin
- Ben Acker
- Ben Blacker
- Eugenie Ross-Leming
- Brad Buckner
- Jenny Klein
- Robbie Thompson
Season 8 Writers
- Jeremy Carver
- Andrew Dabb
- Daniel Loflin
- Eugenie Ross-Leming
- Brad Buckner
- Robbie Thompson
- Ben Edlund
- Adam Glass
- Jenny Klein
Season 9 Writers
- Jeremy Carver
- Adam Glass
- Andrew Dabb
- Eugenie Ross-Leming
- Brad Buckner
- Eric Charmelo
- Nicole Snyder
- Robbie Thompson
- Jenny Klein
- Robert Berens
Writers on Twitter
- Writer and Executive Producer Adam Glass on @AdamGlass44
- Writer and Co-Producer Robbie Thompson on @rthompson1138
- Writer Eric Charmelo on @charmzies
- Writer Jenny Klein on @jennydelherpes
- Writer and Supervising Producer Andrew Dabb on @andrewdabb
- Writer Bob Berens: @robertberens
- Writers' Assisstant John Bring: @the_john_bring
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