Allan Heinberg

 ( 1967 Births ) 

Allan Heinberg (born June 29, 1967) is an American film screenwriter, television writer and producer and comic book writer.

Heinberg is the screenwriter of the 2017 film Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins. His television writing and producing credits include The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Grey's Anatomy, Looking, and Scandal. Most recently, Heinberg developed, wrote, and ran ABC's The Catch, starring Mireille Enos and Peter Krause and also developed the 2022 Netflix series on The Sandman.

For Marvel Comics, Heinberg co-created and wrote Young Avengers and its sequel, Avengers: The Children’s Crusade with co-creator/artist Jim Cheung. As part of this series, he co-created the Marvel characters Kate Bishop, Hulkling, Iron Lad, Patriot (Eli Bradley), Speed, and Wiccan. For DC Comics, Heinberg co-wrote JLA: Crisis of Conscience with Geoff Johns (art by Chris Batista), and re-launched Wonder Woman with artists Terry and Rachel Dodson.

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Early life Heinberg is a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Yale University class of 1989. He was in Morse College. Heinberg acted in the Broadway cast of Laughter on the 23rd Floor and appeared off-Broadway in Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh and the Vineyard Theatre's production of Bob Merrill's Hannah...1939 starring Julie Wilson.

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Career

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Theatre A stageplay called The Amazon's Voice helped launch Heinberg's screenwriting career in 1994.New York Film Academy Guest Speaker Series video at 2:26 Oct 10, 2018 The play was produced off-Broadway by the MCC Theater and featured Tim Blake Nelson and Ellen Parker in lead roles. newspapers.com February 25, 1994 nytimes.com February 23, 1994

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Comics Heinberg's Young Avengers was a sales success and fan favorite for Marvel Comics. He returned to write for the Young Avengers during the 2010–2011 storyline.

After co-writing a 5-issue arc of DC Comics's Justice League with Geoff Johns, Heinberg and artist Terry Dodson relaunched Wonder Woman following the Infinite Crisis limited series.

Heinberg won the 2005 Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent for Young Avengers

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TV On television, Heinberg worked on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Grey's Anatomy, Looking, Scandal and The Catch, and served as Executive Producer of The CW's Television pilot for their Wonder Woman origin series Amazon in 2012, but the pilot was not picked up to series. In 2019, it was announced that Heinberg would develop a television adaptation of The Sandman for Netflix. He also executive produces the show with Neil Gaiman and David S. Goyer.

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Movies Heinberg wrote the screenplay for the 2017 superhero film Wonder Woman, as well as co-wrote the story with Zack Snyder and Jason Fuchs.

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Filmography

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Film

2012	Blue Like Jazz	Special thanks
2017	Playing It Straight	Very special thanks	Short film
	Thirst	Special thanks
	Wonder Woman	Screenplay by Story by	Co-wrote story with Zack Snyder and Jason Fuchs

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Television

1997–1998	The Naked Truth	Written by
1998–2000	Party of Five	Story editor, written by, story by, co-producer, producer
2000–2002	Sex and the City	Creative consultant, written by, supervising producer
2000	Grosse Pointe	Creative consultant
2002	Gilmore Girls	Written by
2006–2010	Grey's Anatomy	Written by, executive producer, co-executive producer, consulting producer
2006	Grey's Anatomy: Straight to the Heart	Consulting producer	TV movie
	Grey's Anatomy: Under Pressure
	Grey's Anatomy: Complications of the Heart
2007	Grey's Anatomy: Every Moment Counts	Co-executive producer
	Grey's Anatomy: Come Rain or Shine
2016–2017	The Catch	Developed by, executive producer, written by
2021	Hawkeye	Created Kate Bishop (uncredited)
2022	The Sandman	Developed by, executive producer, written by

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Video games

2013	Marvel Heroes	Characters created by, uncredited	Characters: Katherine "Kate" Bishop/Hawkeye and William "Billy" Kaplan/Wiccan
2016	Lego Marvel's Avengers		Characters: Katherine "Kate" Bishop/Hawkeye, William "Billy" Kaplan/Wiccan, Hulkling and Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd/Speed
2016	Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2		Characters: Katherine "Kate" Bishop/Hawkeye, William "Billy" Kaplan/Wiccan and Hulkling

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External links

• Allan Heinberg at Marvel.com

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