Jonathan Vandergriff
Lecturer
Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Email: vandergr@chapman.edu
Biography
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 ABC hit show, 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 attained the title
of Co-Executive Producer on the popular WB show, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Along the way, Jon wrote sitcom pilots for NBC and The WB and has also had two
screenplays optioned by Hollywood-based production companies. A life-long lover of
board games, Jon is also a board game inventor who has had three games published,
including Anger Management, and A Way With Words, which is also an app and was recently picked up by EA to publish on their website, pogo.com.