Brian VanDerWilt:  

Life Originally from Iowa, Brian attended Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois where he completed both his undergraduate (in theatre) and his graduate (in television producing/directing) degrees. He started his career teaching at Bellarmine-Jefferson High in Burbank and producing live events in Los Angeles parlaying that experience into developing & producing live events for television; ultimately developing & producing episodic shows for network television. In 1995 he started working for the Walt Disney Studios (Touchstone) Network Television division in Burbank, California – specifically in the areas of current programming and origianl series development. His first assignment was working with Married With Children creator Ron Leavitt and his then new series for the WB, Unhappily Ever After. His last assignment was serving on the creative team of the then fledgling sitcom, These Friends of Mine (later to be retitled Ellen) for ABC. In his three years with the show, Ellen soared to record ratings and made television history as the first network show to feature an openly gay lead character. Brian remained on the show until its cancellation and then left Disney to accept a contract at 20th Century Fox where he worked on the then new series Roswell and Smallville both for the WB and ultimately with James Cameron on his Lightstorm Entertainment’s only/first network television endeavor, Dark Angel for FOX...Expand for more