Jennifer Joy "J.J." Philbin (born
August 30,
1974[ BirthDatabase.com (Search for "Jennifer Philbin")] in
New York,
New York) is an
American screenwriter and
television producer best known for her work on the drama series
The O.C. and as the daughter of television star
Regis Philbin and his wife
Joy Philbin.
Biography
Career
Philbin's career began soon after she graduated from university when she became a writer for
MADtv in 1995, and then joined the script department of
Saturday Night Live until 1999. In 2002 she moved onto
That Was Then, an
ABC drama series, as a writer, and in 2003 began work on the comedy-drama series
Dead Like Me, for which she served as both writer and script supervisor for several episodes. She had a meeting with the executive producers of
The O.C. in late 2003 and was keen for a job, but another job came up and so she worked shortly as story editor for the sitcom
Coupling. In 2004 she joined the
O.C. crew after
Coupling was canceled and
The O.C.'s producers offered her a writing position.
For 2004, she served as story editor, but was promoted to executive story editor for the remainder of the show's duration, from 2005 to 2007, and during that time wrote twelve episodes and co-produced another four.
Following
The O.C.'s end, she became a co-executive producer and writer on the first season of the science fiction drama
Heroes.
She and the other
Saturday Night Live writers were nominated for a
Writers Guild of America Award in 2001 in the category of "Comedy/Variety Series".
