Adam Beechen

Most recently Story Editor on the highly-anticipated animated series Pink Panther and Pals for Cartoon Network, Adam began his professional career as a staff-writer for the Aaron Spelling-produced prime-time drama Savannah, and has written for some of the most popular and acclaimed animated and live-action children’s series of the past decade, including cartoons such as Cartoon Network’s Edgar and Ellen, Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi (both of which he served as Story Editor), Ben Ten, Ben Ten: Alien Force, Teen Titans, Secret Saturdays, The Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Batman (for which he received an Emmy nomination) Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys, X-Men: Evolution, Little Bill, Jackie Chan Adventures, Static Shock and Mucha Lucha, as well as the live-action kids’ series Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, Out There, and The Famous Jett Jackson. Adam is the author of Hench, a graphic novel which, following rave reviews from Entertainment Weekly, Publisher’s Weekly and Variety, was optioned by Warner Brothers in the spring of 2009 as a live-action feature in which Danny (Eastbound and Down, Tropic Thunder) McBride will star and Neal (I Am Legend, The Fast and the Furious) Moritz will produce. Adam also scripted the recent comic book miniseries Batgirl for DC Comics, for whom he has also written Teen Titans, Robin, Countdown to Adventure , and Justice League Unlimited. Adam’s second graphic novel, Dugout, hit bookshelves in summer, 2008. Currently, he scripts Killapalooza, a miniseries he co-created, and the long-running WildC.A.T.S. both for Wildstorm Entertainment. Adam has written more than twenty children’s books for Simon and Schuster, as well as an original young adult novel, What I Did On My Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation. Adam has branched into the field of video-game writing, developing the story for and scripting Monster Labs, a Wii-Platform game released by Eidos in 2008, and Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi: Kaz-Napped for the Nintendo DS. In addition to his Emmy nomination, Adam has been honored with selection to the prestigious Warner Brothers Comedy Writers Workshop, and a Postgraduate Fellowship from the James A. Michener Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Adam is also an accomplished playwright, with stagings of his one-act and short plays in both New York and Los Angeles.