Jonathan Vandergriff

Jon Vandergriff received his MFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California and immediately segued into professional sitcom writing with his debut freelance script for the hit ABC series Coach. That was followed by a six-year stint on the even bigger ABC hit, Home Improvement, where he rose from staff writer to supervising producer. He subsequently became a co-executive producer on the popular WB series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Along the way, Vandergriff wrote sitcom pilots for NBC and The WB and had two screenplays optioned by Hollywood-based production companies. 

A lifelong lover of board games, Vandergriff is also a board game inventor who has had three games published, including Anger Management and A Way With Words. The latter is also an app that was recently picked up by EA to publish on their website, pogo.com.