David Weddle | Executive Producer and Writer | The Strain | FX

David Weddle served as Writer/Supervising Producer for the critically-acclaimed science fiction series Battlestar Galactica, which won a Peabody Award in 2005. He also worked as Writer/Co-Executive Producer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which earned him and Bradley Thompson an Environmental Media Award in 2011 for an episode titled “Fracked.”

Weddle was also Co-Executive Producer/Writer for Falling Skies, and worked as Writer for series including The Fearing Mind, The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

He is the author of two books: the critically-acclaimed, definitive biography, If They Move…Kill ‘Em! The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah, and Among the Mansions of Eden, a best-selling study of America’s material madness before the September 11^th attacks, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the stock market crash of 2008 that brought an end to the fevered illusions that drove America to the brink of self-destruction.

As a journalist, Weddle has written for such publications as Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, L.A. Weekly, Sight & Sound, Film Comment and Variety.