Donald Todd Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Writers Guild of America Award for New Series for "Ugly Betty" in 2007
• Wrote his first script for school while attending Furman University
• Was a story editor on "ALF" and an executive story consultant on "Misfits of Science" in the late 1980s
• Started out as a writer on the TV series "The Twilight Zone" in 1985
• Was inspired to become a writer by reading the work of Stephen King, Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury
• Quote: "I think any show has to ultimately be a show about relationships․․․You've got your premise but the premise is an envelope but then it's really about the relationships and the characters․"
• Best known as the creator and executive producer of "Samantha Who?" and as the writer and executive producer of "Hart of Dixie․"