Matt Selman

Matt Selman

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Executive producer Writer
Birth date:	September 9, 1971 (1971-09-09) (age 53)
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	588
Seasons active:	Season 9 - Present
First short:	Playdate with Destiny
Most recent short:	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
First episode:	"Treehouse of Horror VIII"
Most recent episode:	"Women in Shorts"
First game:	The Simpsons: Road Rage
Most recent game:	The Simpsons Game
First album:	Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons
Latest album:	The Simpsons: Testify

Matt Selman (born September 9, 1971) is an American writer and producer. He currently serves as a writer, executive producer, and showrunner for The Simpsons and previously served as a staff writer, story editor, producer, supervising producer, and co-executive producer. He was also interviewed in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!.

Selman is married to Renee Ridgeley, who is an occasional voice actress for The Simpsons.

Awards[edit]

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production	1999^[1]	"Simpsons Bible Stories"	Won
Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production	2007^[2]	The Simpsons Movie	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	1999^[3]	"Viva Ned Flanders"	Nominated
2000^[4]	"Behind the Laughter"	Won
2001^[5]	"HOMЯ"
2002^[6]	"She of Little Faith"	Nominated
2003^[7]	"Three Gays of the Condo"	Won
2004^[8]	"The Way We Weren't"	Nominated
2005^[9]	"Future-Drama"
2006^[10]	"The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"	Won
2007^[11]	"The Haw-Hawed Couple"	Nominated
2008^[12]	"Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"	Won
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2009^[13]	"Gone Maggie Gone"	Nominated
2010^[14]	"Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
2011^[15]	"Angry Dad: The Movie"
2012^[16]	"Holidays of Future Passed"
2013^[17]	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
2015^[18]	"Treehouse of Horror XXV"
2016^[19]	"Halloween of Horror"
2017^[20]	"The Town"
2018^[21]	"Gone Boy"
2019^[22]	"Mad About the Toy"	Won
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2020^[23]	"Thanksgiving of Horror"	Nominated
2021^[24]	"The Dad-Feelings Limited"
2022^[25]	"Pixelated and Afraid"
2023^[26]	"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"	Won
2024^[27]	"Night of the Living Wage"	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program	2021^[28]	The Force Awakens from Its Nap	Nominated
2022^[29]	When Billie Met Lisa
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation	2003^[30]	"Jaws Wired Shut"	Nominated
2004^[31]	"The Dad Who Knew Too Little"	Won
2007^[32]	"Girls Just Want to Have Sums"	Nominated
2008^[33]	"The Haw-Hawed Couple"
2011^[34]	"Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
2015^[35]	"Covercraft"
2016^[36]	"Sky Police"

Credits[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Matt Selman at the Internet Movie Database
Matt Selman at Wikipedia
Matt Selman at MobyGames
Matt Selman at Twitter

view • talk • edit • past Showrunners

James L. Brooks • Matt Groening • Al Jean • George Meyer • David Mirkin • Bill Oakley • Mike Reiss • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • Sam Simon • Josh Weinstein
Co-showrunners
Brian Kelley • Rob LaZebnik • Tim Long • Carolyn Omine • Michael Price

Writers

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J. Stewart Burns • Joel H. Cohen • Jessica Conrad • John Frink • Broti Gupta • Al Jean • Brian Kelley • Ryan Koh • Rob LaZebnik • Tim Long • Cesar Mazariegos • Christine Nangle • Carolyn Omine • Michael Price • Matt Selman • Loni Steele Sosthand • Dan Vebber • Jeff Westbrook

view • talk • edit • past Former writers
Megan Amram • Richard Appel • Elisabeth Kiernan Averick • Bob Bendetson • James L. Brooks • Bill Canterbury • Donick Cary • Dan Castellaneta • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Jonathan Collier • Jennifer Crittenden • Kevin Curran • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • Michael Ferris • Brent Forrester • Peter Gaffney • Tom Gammill • Valentina L. Garza • Stephanie Gillis • Mitch Glazer • Allen Glazier • Ned Goldreyer • Dana Gould • Dan Greaney • Matt Groening • Reid Harrison • Ron Hauge • Pete Holmes • David Isaacs • Ken Keeler • Billy Kimball • Jay Kogen • Andrew Kreisberg • Bob Kushell • Deb Lacusta • Ken Levine • Jeff Martin • Tom Martin • Ian Maxtone-Graham • Dan McGrath • George Meyer • David Mirkin • Frank Mula • Michael Nobori • Conan O'Brien • Steve O'Donnell • Bill Oakley • Bill Odenkirk • Don Payne • Max Pross • Rachel Pulido • Mike Reiss • Nell Scovell • Brian Scully • Mike Scully • David Silverman • Sam Simon • David M. Stern • Joshua Sternin • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker Scully • Miranda Thompson • Steve Tompkins • Jennifer Ventimilia • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Josh Weinstein • Marc Wilmore • Wallace Wolodarsky • William Wright

view • talk • edit • past One-time writers
Judd Apatow • Gary Apple • Bob Bain • Jack Barth • Jane Becker • Dick Blasucci • Neal Boushell • Neil Campbell • Michael Carrington • Nancy Cartwright • David Chambers • Julie Chambers • Thomas Chastain • Jeremy Chilnick • Chris Cluess • Robert Cohen • Max Cohn • David Cryan • Nick Dahan • Spike Feresten • Bill Freiberger • Daniel Furlong • Ricky Gervais • Howard Gewirtz • Evan Goldberg • Brendan Hay • Eric Horsted • Justin Hurwitz • Ben Joseph • Eric Kaplan • Juliet Kaufman • Mick Kelly • Dave King • Adam I. Lapidus • Johnny LaZebnik • Josh Lieb • David Mandel • Matt Marshall • Jenna Martin • Samantha Martin • Brian McConnachie • Jane C. O'Brien • Sam O'Neal • Jack Parmeter • Steve Pepoon • Edgar Allan Poe • Brian Pollack • Mimi Pond • Zach Posner • Julia Prescott • Mert Rich • Simon Rich • David Richardson • Jace Richdale • Renee Ridgeley • Brian K. Roberts • Seth Rogen • David Sacks • Robin Sayers • Harry Shearer • Dennis Snee • Robin Stein • David H. Steinberg • Peter Tilden • Patric Verrone • Steve Viksten • Vince Waldron • Danielle Weisberg • Steve Young • Ron Zimmerman

view • talk • edit • past Staff writers
Richard Appel • Bill Canterbury • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Jennifer Crittenden • Valentina L. Garza • Dan Greaney • Teresa Hsiao • Jon Kern • Cesar Mazariegos • Matt Selman • Matt Warburton

view • talk • edit • past Book writers
Peter Alexander • Jamie Angell • Ted Brock • Eileen Campion • Max Franke • Jim Jensen • Barbara McAdams • Bill Morrison • Mili Smythe • Mary Trainor • Doug Whaley

view • talk • edit • past Other writers
Neil Alsip • Jamie Angell • Bob Bain • Eric Brewster • Jeremy Chilnick • Jorge R. Gutierrez • Patrick Meighan • Jack Parmeter • Jeffrey Poliquin • Tom Root • Morgan Spurlock • Michael R. Viner

Executive producers and Co-executive producers

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James L. Brooks • John Frink • Matt Groening • Al Jean • Matt Selman • Sam Simon*

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David X. Cohen • Tim Long • Ian Maxtone-Graham • George Meyer • David Mirkin • Bill Oakley • Carolyn Omine • Mike Reiss • Mike Scully • Josh Weinstein

view • talk • edit • past Other executive producers
Scot Amos • 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 • Jake Myrick • Jim Myrick • 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

view • talk • edit • past Current co-executive producers
J. Stewart Burns • Dan Castellaneta • Joel H. Cohen • Brian Kelley • Ryan Koh • Rob LaZebnik • Tim Long • Christine Nangle • Michael Price • Dan Vebber • Jeff Westbrook

view • talk • edit • past 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 • Steve Tompkins • Matt Warburton • Marc Wilmore

view • talk • edit • past Other co-executive producers
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong • Keith Crofford • Tom Devanney • Mike Lazzo • Patrick Meighan • Brian Scully • John Viener

Supervising producers

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Jessica Conrad • Broti Gupta • Cesar Mazariegos

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Larina Jean Adamson • Elisabeth Kiernan Averick • J. Stewart Burns • Donick Cary • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jonathan Collier • Kevin Curran • Larry Doyle • John Frink • Valentina L. Garza • Dana Gould • Dan Greaney • Ron Hauge • Al Jean • Ken Keeler • Brian Kelley • Harold Kimmel • Jay Kogen • Ryan Koh • Tim Long • Tom Martin • Frank Mula • Conan O'Brien • Bill Oakley • Bill Odenkirk • Carolyn Omine • Don Payne • Michael Price • Richard Raynis • Mike Reiss • David Richardson • David Sacks • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • Julie Thacker • Steve Tompkins • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore • Wallace Wolodarsky

view • talk • edit • past Other supervising producers
Alex Carter • Marge Dean • Janet Dimon • Andrew Goldberg • Carl Hansen • Kelly L'Estrange • Aaron Lee • Dan Schwachter • Julius Sharpe • Hyejoon Yun

Producers and Co-producers

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Richard K. Chung • Alexander Duke • David Mirkin • Richard Raynis • Mike Reiss • Richard Sakai • Denise Sirkot • Loni Steele Sosthand

view • talk • edit • past Former producers
Larina Jean Adamson • Richard Appel • Elisabeth Kiernan Averick • Bob Bendetson • Joseph A. Boucher • Donick Cary • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jonathan Collier • Jessica Conrad • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • John Frink • Tom Gammill • Valentina L. Garza • Dana Gould • Dan Greaney • Broti Gupta • Ron Hauge • Al Jean • Ken Keeler • Jay Kogen • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Tim Long • Jeff Martin • Tom Martin • Cesar Mazariegos • J. Michael Mendel • George Meyer • Frank Mula • Conan O'Brien • Carolyn Omine • Don Payne • Bonita Pietila • Max Pross • Gerry Richardson • David Sacks • Brian Scully • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • David Silverman • David M. Stern • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore • Wallace Wolodarsky

view • talk • edit • past Other producers
Holly Adams • Rory Armes • Bob Bain • Chuck Beaver • Trevor Bent • Tara Beyhm • Kevin Biggins • Travis Bowe • Hans ten Cate • Vlad Ceraldi • Chiodo Brothers Productions, Inc. • Edward Chiodo • Dorina Diakoumopoulou • Ron Diamond • András Erkel • Kim Fertman • Mark Flitman • Darren Futa • Marci Galea • Ollie Green • Brian Grohl • Joey Haines • Dean Hannan • Pete Herzog • Bryan Johnson • Conall Jones • Rachel Braga Jones • Claudia Katz • Dan Kitchen • Jonathan Knight • Edward Kuspiel • Cate Latchford • Scott Lauritzen • Esther H. Lee • Rob Leingang • Steve Marmel • Matt McKnight • John Melchior • Alfred Milgrom • Jon O'Sheal • Jon Osborn • Jack Parmeter • Maria Beatriz Silva Piovezanni • Paul Provenzano • Harish Rao • Alan Rast • Johanna Rees • Mark Rhodes • Ryan Ridley • Laura Saravia • Mike Schneider • Kirk Scott • Gary Sheinwald • Shannon Smith • Beth Sowersby • Desirée Stavracos • Szavo Sztilkovics • Nick Trotta • Scott Turow • Brian Ullrich • Martijn van der Meulen • Csaba Varga • Michael R. Viner • Ru Warner • Cam Weber • David Wisehart • Tim Yoon • Wendy Cong Zhao

view • talk • edit • past Current co-producers
Dominique Braud • Loni Steele Sosthand

view • talk • edit • past Former co-producers
Larina Jean Adamson • Joseph A. Boucher • Tom Brady • Daniel Chun • Richard K. Chung • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jessica Conrad • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • Alexander Duke • Brent Forrester • Valentina L. Garza • Paul Germain • Al Jean • Ken Keeler • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Tim Long • Tom Martin • J. Michael Mendel • George Meyer • Carolyn Omine • Mike Reiss • Brian Scully • Matt Selman • Loni Steele Sosthand • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore

view • talk • edit • past Other co-producers
Sady Cohen • Doug Goldstein • Tova Goodman • Jay Kleckner • Ethan Marak • Amanda Moshay

Story editors

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Richard Appel • Donick Cary • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jessica Conrad • Jennifer Crittenden • Richard Doctorow • Larry Doyle • Brent Forrester • Valentina L. Garza • Ned Goldreyer • Dan Greaney • Reid Harrison • Ron Hauge • Jon Kern • Andrew Kreisberg • Bob Kushell • Tim Long • Jeff Martin • Cesar Mazariegos • Dan McGrath • Jane C. O'Brien • Bill Oakley • Matt Selman • Damilare Sonoiki • Loni Steele Sosthand • Joshua Sternin • John Swartzwelder • Jennifer Ventimilia • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Josh Weinstein

view • talk • edit • past Other story editors
Anthony Blasucci • Mike Desilets • Dave Ihlenfeld • Ted Jessup • Artie Johann • Shawn Ries • David Wright

Interviewees in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!

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Morgan Spurlock

view • talk • edit • past Cast and crew
Hank Azaria • Brad Bird • James L. Brooks • Nancy Cartwright • Dan Castellaneta • Dana Gould • Matt Groening • Al Jean • Julie Kavner • David Mirkin • Conan O'Brien • Mike Reiss • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • David Silverman • Sam Simon • Yeardley Smith • Matt Warburton

view • talk • edit • past Guest stars
Hugh Hefner • Mike Judge • Joe Mantegna • Dan Rather • Jerry Springer • Sting • Tracey Ullman • John Waters

view • talk • edit • past Opening music montage
Bellowhead • Chicha Libre • Jimmy Fallon • Flea • Eric Fraser • Sameer Gupta • Adam Lintz • Neel Murgai • The Bill Murray Experience • O.A.R. • People Under the Stairs (Double K • Thes One) • The Roots • Michael Sherman • Jonathan Stein • Andrew W.K. • ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons • Dusty Hill)

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Noel Bankhead* • Bruce Bryant • George H. W. Bush* • Liz Cameron • Scott Choate • David Cross • William Anthony Donohue* • Ariel Filosa • Bjarni Gautur* • Paula Gobbi • Paul Halpern • Marc Horne • Jensen • Jimmy Kimmel • Seth MacFarlane • Mark McGhee • Seth Meyers • Moby • Rusty Nails • Gavin Newsom • Trey Parker • J. Scott Peterson • Kenneth Pogson • Lucas Pouyau • Rashad Robinson • Chad Rowland • Matt Stone • Richard Sumrall • Ruth Westheimer* • Jeremy Wilcox* • Andrena Williams • Brian Williams • Glynne Williams

[Annie1999-1] The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 27th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (1999)" (archived on Wayback Machine)

[Annie2007-2] The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)" (archived on Wayback Machine)

[3] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1999"

[4] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 2000"

[5] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"

[6] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2002"

[7] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2003"

[8] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2004"

[9] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2005"

[10] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2006"

[11] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2007"

[12] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2008"

[13] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"

[14] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2010"

[15] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2011"

[16] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2012"

[17] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2013"

[18] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2015"

[19] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2016"

[20] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2017"

[21] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2018"

[22] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2019"

[23] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2020"

[24] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2021"

[25] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2022"

[26] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2023"

[27] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2024"

[28] Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2021"

[29] Television Academy - Outstanding Short Form Animated Program - 2022"

[30] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2003 Awards"

[31] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2004 Awards"

[32] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2007 Awards"

[33] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2008 Awards"

[34] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2011 Awards"

[35] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2015 Awards"

[36] IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2016 Awards"

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Matt Selman

Contents

Awards[edit]

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Screenplay by[edit]

Staff writer[edit]

Story editor[edit]

Executive story editor[edit]

Co-producer[edit]

Producer[edit]

Supervising producer[edit]

Co-executive producer[edit]

Executive producer[edit]

Produced by[edit]

Dialogue written by[edit]

Story & dialogue[edit]

Head writer[edit]

Voice direction[edit]

For The Simpsons[edit]

Parody lyrics by[edit]

Interviewee[edit]

References[edit]

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