Geoff Rodkey (born September 9, 1970) is an American screenwriter and author.
Rodkey's most recent novel is the suburban-apocalypse comedy Lights Out in Lincolnwood. Previously, he co-wrote comedian Kevin Hart's 2021 debut middle grade novel Marcus Makes a Movie and the 2019 science fiction comedy We're Not From Here. In 2018, he collaborated with the Story Pirates arts education group on The Story Pirates Present: Stuck in the Stone Age, a novel bundled with a creative writing guide for middle graders. Prior to that, his four-book series The Tapper Twins began publication in 2015 with The Tapper Twins Go To War (With Each Other). His first novel was Deadweather and Sunrise, the first book in The Chronicles of Egg comedy/adventure series for middle grade readers.
His film work includes Daddy Day Care, RV, and The Shaggy Dog. He received an Emmy nomination for his contributions to the Politically Incorrect broadcasts from both the 1996 Democratic and Republican national conventions on Comedy Central.
Works Year Title Notes 1994 Beavis and Butt-head TV series: Episodes "Cow Tipping" and "Health Club" (co-written with J. Stewart Burns) 1995 Newtisms First book 1996 Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot assisted with Al Franken's book 1996 Politically Incorrect TV series 8 episodes Emmy Nomination 1998 LateLine TV series (staff writer) 2003 Daddy Day Care 2006 The Shaggy Dog screenplay (shared credit) 2006 RV 2007 Daddy Day Camp characters / screenplay / story (shared credit) 2011 Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!Disney Channel's Newest Hit, "Good Luck Charlie," Is Picked-Up for Second Season, Plus a Disney Channel Original Movie Disney Channel Original Movie 2012 Deadweather and Sunrise The Chronicles of Egg #1 2013 New Lands The Chronicles of Egg #2 2014 Blue Sea Burning The Chronicles of Egg #3 2015 The Tapper Twins Go To War (With Each Other) The Tapper Twins #1 (pub. date April 7, 2015) 2015 The Tapper Twins Tear Up New York The Tapper Twins #2 (pub. date Sept. 29, 2015) 2016 The Tapper Twins Run For President The Tapper Twins #3 (pub. date Sept. 6, 2016)2017The Tapper Twins Go Viral The Tapper Twins #4 (pub. date April 4, 2017)2018The Story Pirates Present: Stuck in the Stone Age collaboration with Story Pirates and Vince Boberski (pub. date March 6, 2018)2019We're Not From Herepub. date March 5, 20192021Marcus Makes a Movieco-writer with primary author Kevin Hart; pub. date June 1, 20212021Lights out in Lincolnwoodpub. date July 6, 2021
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External links
The Tapper Twins | Official Site
The Chronicles of Egg
Scripts & Scribes Interview with Geoff Rodkey