Tim Hill
As a writer, Hill began his career in live sketch comedy in New York, writing and performing in Off Broadway musicals, and doing sketch comedy with the comedy troupe Chucklehead. Later he moved into television animation, writing and developing shows for Nickelodeon and Disney. He helped develop the hit series, SpongeBob SquarePants with Steve Hillenberg, becoming the head writer on that show and, later, a writer and story editor on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
Hill has worked as a writer, story editor, producer and director on a number of projects for Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Movies, Disney, Comedy Central, Nick at Nite, USA Network, and Discovery Kids. He also wrote, directed and produced the Nickelodeon stop-motion series Action League Now!
Hill was raised in Oakland, California. He studied French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently writing the animated feature Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and developing a situation comedy with his wife, for ABC Family.
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Selected Filmography
Bio courtesy Fox for "Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties" (02-Jun-2007)