Chad Quandt
Chad Quandt | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, showrunner and television producer |
| Notable work | |
Chad Quandt is an American TV writer, producer, and showrunner. He is best known for his work on Star Trek: Prodigy and Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia; he was also co-executive producer and co-showrunner of Wizards: Tales of Arcadia.[1] He won an Emmy Award for Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program),[2] and a Peabody Award for Star Trek: Prodigy.[3]
Early life
[edit]Quandt was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and attended Indiana University, graduating cum laude with honors in telecommunications.[4] He pursued writing as a hobby in high school and college, but hadn't thought of it as a career until he took screenwriting classes at Indiana University and began performing stand-up comedy and writing for the college newspaper The Indiana Daily Student.[5] He also hosted The Friday Zone, a children's educational series, produced by PBS affiliate WITU. Against the advice of his parents, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in writing.[4]
Career
[edit]Film and television
[edit]In 2012, Quandt was attached to a live-action/CGI remake of The Brave Little Toaster from Waterman Entertainment, but it was not produced.[6]
In 2016, Quandt sold The Remember Hour, a comedic post-apocalyptic series framed as a puppet show that taught misunderstood history prior to society's collapse for children, to Disney-owned Maker Studios (later known as the Disney Digital Network) as a web series for the channel Polaris (formerly The Game Station).[7][8] He also hosted numerous programs for the channel including The Daily Byte, Chad Chomp, REMAG, The Friend Zone, and The Holodeck.
He also joined the writing staff of Guillermo del Toro’s animated supernatural/fantasy series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia the same year. He is credited in 24 episodes, and he was nominated for an Annie Award,Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production in 2018 for the episode "Escape from the Darklands";[9] the episode also won a Kidscreen Award for Best Writing.[10] He also won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program in 2018 and was nominated in 2019.[2][11]
Quandt was a story editor and writer on Unikitty!, a spinoff of the animated film The Lego Movie, from 2017 to early 2019.[12]
Quandt returned to Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia franchise as co-executive producer and co-showrunner for the follow-up series, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia, in 2020.[1]
Quandt was then a producer and staff writer for Star Trek: Prodigy, and is credited in all 20 of its first-season episodes. He wrote the episodes Starstruck" and "Ghost in the Machine".[13] The series was awarded a Peabody Award in 2024.[14]
Quandt developed a series based on the Adult Swim short Learning With Pibby: Apocalypse, which aired on April 1, 2021.[15]
Working with director Lauren Montgomery, Quandt developed and sold an adaptation of The Search for WondLa, based on the novel of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi, for Apple TV+.[16] As of 2025 he is story editor on Avatar: Seven Havens.[17]
Since 2010, Quandt has hosted and produced the podcast Goosebuds, a comedy discussion about young adult books and media including Goosebumps and Animorphs.
Gaming
[edit]Quandt is one of the credited writers of the Dungeons & Dragons module Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, set in the Icewind Dale section of the Forgotten Realms, published in 2020.[18]
Comics
[edit]Quandt wrote Cat Ninja Comics Issues #36 and #37 for Epic!, and created the independent comic Rite of Rumble, a wrestling series set in an alternative post-Y2K United States, with illustrator Kayla Cline.[19]
Selected filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 2010–2015 | Dick Figures | actor (4 episodes) |
| 2013 | Dick Figures: The Movie | actor |
| 2014–2018 | Bee and PuppyCat | actor (1 episode) |
| 2014 | Continue? | actor (1 episode) |
| 2015 | Like, Share, Die | actor (1 episode) |
| 2016–2018 | Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia | Writer (52 episodes) |
| 2016–2017 | The Remember Hour | Creator (16 episodes) |
| 2017 | Teen Titans Go! | Writer (1 episode) |
| 2018–2020 | Unikitty! | Writer (56 episodes) |
| 2020 | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia | Co-Showrunner, Co-Executive Producer, Writer (10 episodes) |
| 2021–2023 | Star Trek: Prodigy | Producer, Writer (40 episodes) |
| 2022–2023 | The Search for WondLa | Developed By |
| 2024–Present | Avatar: Seven Hevens | Story Editor |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kidscreen Awards | Best Writing | Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia | Won | [20] |
| Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production | Nominated | [21] | ||
| Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program | Won | [22][23] | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program | Nominated | [11] | ||
| 2021 | Outstanding Children's Animated Series | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia | Nominated | [24] | |
| Kidscreen Awards | Best New Series | Won | [25] | ||
| 2022 | Children's and Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Animated Series | Star Trek: Prodigy | Nominated | [26] |
| 2023 | Television Critics Association Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming | Nominated | [27] | |
| 2024 | Peabody Awards | Peabody Institutional Award | Star Trek, Star Trek: Prodigy | Won | [14] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Holloway, Daniel (2020-07-07). "'Wizards,' Final Chapter in Guillermo del Toro's 'Tales of Arcadia' Trilogy, Sets Premiere Date". Variety. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ a b Pond, Steve (2017-04-29). "'Trollhunters' Leads Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Winners". TheWrap. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ White, Keshia (2024-05-08). "84th Annual Peabody Award Winners Announced". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ a b Moor, Bill. "South Bend man's dream became reality with writing Emmy". South Bend Tribune. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ "2 IU grads help write the secret world of Netflix's 'Trollhunters'". The Herald-Times. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Foreman, Liza (2012-09-12). "Waterman Gives 'Brave Little Toaster' a New Lease of Life (Exclusive)". TheWrap. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (2016-10-26). "Disney's Maker Studios New Comedy, Gaming Original Series Will Get First Window on Sling TV, Other Platforms". Variety. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Gutelle, Sam (2016-12-09). "Maker Studios' Polaris Goes Weird With Trippy Web Series 'The Remember Hour'". Tubefilter. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Magazine, Animation (2019-01-04). "The 46th Annie Awards Shine a Spotlight on Toon Greatness". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ "And the 2018 Kidscreen Awards go to…". Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ a b Milligan, Mercedes (2019-03-20). "Daytime Emmy Nominees: 'Elena of Avalor,' 'Watership Down' Lead Animation". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ "TALES OF ARCADIA Exclusive: Writers Waltke And Quandt On The Franchise And Hopes For An MCU POWER PACK Film". ComicBookMovie.com. 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Lovett, Jamie (2019-07-30). "Star Trek Animated Series Reveals Writing Team". ComicBook.com. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ a b "Star Trek". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Comments, Ray Flook | (2023-10-03). "Pibby: Dodge Greenley Shares Heartbreaking Adult Swim Series Status". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Donnelly, Matt (2021-02-17). "Apple and Skydance Animation Formally Announce Multi-Year Partnership". Variety. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Williams, Caleb (2025-03-08). "'Avatar: Seven Havens' Writers Room Includes 'My Adventures with Superman' Alum Amongst Others". Knight Edge Media. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Hoffer, Christian (2020-06-18). "Dungeons & Dragons Announces Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden". ComicBook.com. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ "The Rite of Rumble #01". Bernardo Brice. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Whyte, Alexandra (February 13, 2018). "And the 2018 Kidscreen Awards go to…". Kidscreen. Brunico Communications. Archived from the original on 2018-02-14. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ Hipes, Patrick (December 4, 2017). "Annie Awards: Disney/Pixar's 'Coco' Tops Nominations". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 22, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR THE 45TH ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY® AWARDS" (PDF). Emmy Awards Official Site. March 21, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Hipes, Patrick (April 27, 2018). "Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards: 'Bold And The Beautiful', 'Sesame Street' Top Winners". Deadline. Archived from the original on 2018-04-28.
- ^ "2021 Daytime Children's and Lifestyle Nominees" (PDF). Emmys Official Website. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Dickson, Jeremy. "Kidscreen Awards 2021 Winners". Kidscreen.com. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ "NATAS ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR FIRST ANNUAL CHILDREN'S & FAMILY EMMYS AS OF NOVEMBER 10, 2022" (PDF). The Emmys Official Website. November 10, 2022. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
- ^ Pedersen, Rosy Cordero, Erik (2023-06-30). "TCA Awards Nominations: 'Succession', 'The Bear' & 'The Last Of Us' Lead; HBO/Max Laps Field With 20 Noms". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
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