Merriwether Williams

Merriwether St. John Williams (born March 28, 1968) is an American television writer, former Nickelodeon executive, and voice actress whose writing credits include SpongeBob SquarePants, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Camp Lazlo, Adventure Time, and Pig Goat Banana Cricket.

Career

After leaving the executive ranks at Nickelodeon, she wrote outlines for SpongeBob SquarePants^[1]^[2]^[3] and a couple episodes of The Angry Beavers. In 2003, she developed and became the show-runner and head writer of the short-lived Showtime animated sitcom Free For All. In 2005, she became the head of story for Camp Lazlo at Cartoon Network.

More recently, Williams has written several episodes for Adventure Time, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Pig Goat Banana Cricket. She has also written an episode for Johnny Test and Pound Puppies. She is formerly co-producer and writer on Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer.^[4]^[5]

She has also co-written the films Good Time Max, The Ape, and Fool's Gold with actor James Franco.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996–1997	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Story Editor	Seasons 3-4
1996–1997	Rugrats	Story Consultant	Season 4
1997–2000	The Angry Beavers	Story Editor & Writer
1998–2000	The Wild Thornberrys	Story Editor & Story Consultant
1999	Fashionably L.A.	Actress	Receptionist
1999	KaBlam!	Additional Writing	Segment: Stewy the Dogboy
1999–2004	SpongeBob SquarePants	Story Editor, Writer, & Executive Story Editor, Actress, Story	Actress of Subliminal Message Girl
2003	Free For All	Developer, Writer, & Executive Producer
2005–2008	Camp Lazlo	Story & Story Editor
2010–2011	Adventure Time	Story & Story Editor^[6]	Seasons 1-2
2011	Johnny Test	Writer	Episode: "Johnny's World Record"
2011–2013	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Writer & Songwriter	Seasons 2-4
2012	Pound Puppies	Writer & Songwriter	Episode: "Salty"
2012–2014	Littlest Pet Shop	Writer: Story & Teleplay	Seasons 1-3
2013	SheZow	Writer	Episode: "SheZon's Greetings"
2015–2017	Pig Goat Banana Cricket	Writer, Story
2017	Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer	Co-producer, Writer and Story Editor	TBA

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	The Ape	Writer: Screenplay
2005	Fool's Gold	Writer: Screenplay
2007	Diggs Tailwagger	Writer	Pilot
2007	Where's Lazlo?	Story	TV movie
2007	Good Time Max	Writer
2016	Toasty Tales	Writer & Story Editor

^ "Writer Appreciation Day 2: Merriwether Williams". The Round Stable. August 15, 2012. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
^ Banks 2004, p. 10
^ Drymon, Derek (2010). "The Oral History of SpongeBob SquarePants". Hogan's Alley #17. Bull Moose Publishing Corporation. Archived from the original on August 31, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
^ ""Billy Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer" News & Discussion Thread".
^ "Aaron Springer and Merriwether Williams are working on something new for Disney!". 29 October 2015.
^ McDonnell, Chris (2014). Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo. Harry N. Abrams. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4197-0450-5. Cartoon Network management decided to hire some experienced help in several key position to nudge the production toward smoother operation. Derek Drymon was brought on as an executive producer. Merriwether Williams was hired as story editor. Nick Jennings was hired as art director. All three were veterans of SpongeBob SquarePants

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