Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Robert Hewitt Wolfe is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his work as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and for developing and producing the series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. As of 2005[update], he lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Celeste, and dog, Tonka.
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[edit] Background
Wolfe was born in 1964 in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of a career army officer and a surgical nurse. As an army family, the Wolfes moved frequently before finally settling in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. During his childhood, Wolfe tried three times to write a novel (at the ages of ten, thirteen and twenty), but never finished. In college he discovered that television and film screenwriting suited him better.
Wolfe graduated UCLA, receiving a bachelor's degree in Film and Television and a MFA in Screenwriting. His first screenplay, Paper Dragons, placed second in the prestigious Goldwyn awards. The prize money allowed Wolfe to buy his first computer. At this point he decided to try to make himself a career in show business.
[edit] Star Trek work
Wolfe's career didn't seem to be rising for five years, until he sold the story for A Fistful of Datas to the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. His writing of the screenplay for the episode secured him a place in the creative staff of the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, that made its debut in the following year.
Wolfe worked on DS9 for five years, under the supervision of showrunners Michael Piller and Ira Steven Behr. During this time, he wrote or co-wrote over thirty episodes. These include action-packed episodes with high story-arc importance (The Way of the Warrior, Call to Arms), dramatic character studies (The Wire, Hard Time) and even comedic farces (Family Business, Little Green Men).
[edit] Andromeda and other later work
In the period that followed his departure from Deep Space Nine, Wolfe made several attempts at writing television pilots. One of these, Futuresport, was produced as an ABC TV movie starring Dean Cain and Wesley Snipes. He has also written several (unproduced) features, including Splicers for 20th Century Fox and Zero Gee for John Woo and Terrance Chang's Lion Rock Productions.
In 1999, working from notes by Gene Roddenberry, Wolfe developed the syndicated series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The series premiered in the fall of 2000 as the number one original hour in syndication, a position it held for most of its five-year run.[citation needed] Wolfe served as head writer and executive producer on Andromeda for its first two seasons, during which the series was nominated for two Saturn Award for Best Syndicated Series and for a BC Film Commission Leo Award for Best Dramatic Series. Wolfe resigned as head writer of Andromeda in the fall of 2001, when he allegedly refused to reduce the show's complex plots and ensemble cast to a focus on the heroics of the main character.[citation needed]
Subsequently Wolfe wrote freelance scripts for both The Dead Zone and UPN's revival of The Twilight Zone. In 2004, he served as a consulting producer and writer on the first and fourth seasons of The 4400 on USA Network, helping launch the successful series.
Wolfe was an executive producer on the Sci Fi Channel series The Dresden Files, along with David Simkins, Nicolas Cage and others. It is a production of Lions Gate Television and Saturn Films. It premiered on January 21, 2007 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Wolfe and Hans Beimler wrote the screenplay for the pilot and developed the series, which is based on the books by Jim Butcher.
He is developing a currently untitled series from Universal Cable Productions, set on the Starship Defender.
