Don Payne

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Don Payne is an American writer. On The Simpsons he has often co-written episodes with John Frink. He has recently moved to screenwriting. Payne has written such movies as My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) and the upcoming Thor (2011).

Credits

With John Frink

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI"
• Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy"
• Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
• Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
• Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
• Episode – "The Great Louse Detective"
• Episode – "Old Yeller Belly"
• Episode – "The Wandering Juvie"

Solo episodes

• Episode – "Fraudcast News"
• Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
• Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
• Episode – "Little Big Girl"
• Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
• Episode – "Take My Life, Please"

With Mitchell H. Glazer

• Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"

Executive producers and Co-executive producers

Current executive producers James L. Brooks • John Frink • Matt Groening • Matt Selman • Sam Simon* Former executive producers David X. Cohen • Al Jean • Tim Long • Ian Maxtone-Graham • George Meyer • David Mirkin • Bill Oakley • Carolyn Omine • Mike Reiss • Mike Scully • Josh Weinstein Other executive producers Scot Amos • Richard Appel • Nick Bliobenes • Fritz Bronner • Dominic Buttimore • Steve Callaghan • Jeremy Chilnick • Charlie Dixon • Nandish Domlur • Jay Fukuto • Rick Giolito • Greg Goodrich • Seth Green • Dan Harmon • John Harvatine IV • Mark Hentemann • Clare Hollywood • Larry Jones • Foo Katan • Richard Kay • Leigh Kelly • Scott Krager • Brad Lewis • David Lipman • Seth MacFarlane • Jake Myrick • Jim Myrick • Nikhil Nandish • Trishaal Nandish • Rob Pratt • Kent Rice • Justin Roiland • Tom Root • Carl Rosendahl • Matthew Senreich • Eric Shanks • Denise Sirkot • Danny Smith • Gabe Spitzer • Morgan Spurlock • Chris Takami • Fumiaki Tanaka • Eric Towner • Kara Vallow • Nikki Vanzo • Michael Webb Current co-executive producers J. Stewart Burns • Dan Castellaneta • Joel H. Cohen • Jessica Conrad • Broti Gupta • Brian Kelley • Ryan Koh • Rob LaZebnik • Tim Long • Cesar Mazariegos • Christine Nangle • Michael Price • Loni Steele Sosthand • Dan Vebber • Jeff Westbrook Former co-executive producers Richard Appel • Elisabeth Kiernan Averick • Donick Cary • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Kevin Curran • Greg Daniels • John Frink • Dana Gould • Dan Greaney • Ron Hauge • Al Jean • Josh Lieb • Ian Maxtone-Graham • George Meyer • Frank Mula • Bill Odenkirk • Carolyn Omine • Don Payne • Mike Reiss • Jace Richdale • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • Julie Thacker Scully • Steve Tompkins • Matt Warburton • Marc Wilmore Other co-executive producers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong • Keith Crofford • Tom Devanney • Mike Lazzo • Patrick Meighan • Brian Scully • Peter Shin • John Viener