Brad Wright (born May 2, 1961) is a Canadian television producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of the television series Stargate SG-1 (with Jonathan Glassner), Stargate Atlantis (with Robert C. Cooper) and Stargate Universe (also with Cooper) and as the creator of Travelers.
Before the inception of the Stargate franchise, he served as the co-executive producer and a writer of The Outer Limits. He has also written scripts for several other television series including Neon Rider, The Adventures of the Black Stallion, The Odyssey, Highlander: The Series and Poltergeist: The Legacy.
Career Wright has appeared twice in Stargate SG-1, as a studio executive in the 100th episode, "Wormhole X-Treme!", and as a parody of Star Trek'''s Scotty in a fantasy sequence in the 200th episode, "200".
In April 2007, in recognition of his efforts to promote Canadian writing talent, and to recognize his efforts as the primary creative writing force on the Stargate shows, Wright was presented with the inaugural "Showrunner Award" at the Canadian Screenwriting Awards in Toronto. In July of the same year, he won the 2007 Constellation Award in the category Best Overall 2006 Science Fiction Film or Television Script for the episode of Stargate SG-1 entitled "200".
In late March 2009, Wright was nominated for a Nebula Award for "Best Script". The nomination was for the season 5 Stargate Atlantis episode "The Shrine".
Filmography Film Title Year Credited as Notes Producer Writer Stargate: The Ark of Truth 2008 Stargate: Continuum 2008
Television The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.
Title Year Credited as Network Notes Creator Writer Executiveproducer The Adventures of the Black Stallion 1990 (3) YTV Neon Rider 1990–1994 (18) CTVYTV Forever Knight 1992–1993 (3) CBS Northwood 1993 (2) CBC Television The Odyssey 1994 (3) CBC Television Highlander: The Series 1994 (1) Madison 1994 (2) Global The Outer Limits 1995–2002 (20) ShowtimeSyfy Supervising producer (1996: 21 episodes), co-executive producer (1996–98: 23 episodes) Poltergeist: The Legacy 1996–1997 (3) Showtime Stargate SG-1 1997–2007 (40) ShowtimeSyfy Stargate Atlantis 2004–2009 (11) Syfy Stargate Universe 2009–2011 (9) Syfy Travelers 2016–2018 (7) ShowcaseNetflix
References
External links Brad Wright at the official Stargate'' website