Damon Lindelof
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Damon Lindelof (born 24 April 1973; age 35) is a Hollywood writer and producer from Teaneck, New Jersey currently working with J.J. Abrams to produce Star Trek, the eleventh film in the Trek franchise, due out in 2009. Star Trek is Lindelof's first feature film project.
He and Abrams are two of the creators and executive producers of the hit ABC television series Lost. They and the other producers of Lost (including Bryan Burk) received one of television's highest honors when Lost won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. Lindelof and the producers of Lost also won the 2005 WGA (Writers Guild of America) Award for Best Dramatic Series and were nominated for a second WGA Award. In addition, they shared a Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic from the PGA (Producers Guild of America) Golden Laurel Awards, received a second nomination from the PGA, and a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) TV Award nomination.
Lindelof is also a writer on Lost, having written or co-written some 70 episodes of the series, including the series pilot, which he co-wrote with J.J. Abrams and co-creator Jeffrey Lieber and for which he shared an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. He later earned a second nomination for co-writing the episode "The 23rd Psalm" and a third nomination for co-writing "Through the Looking Glass." In the latter case, both he and Ronald D. Moore were nominated in the same category, but neither received the award.
He was previously a writer and executive story editor for the series Crossing Jordan, which he also co-produced. He has also written for such shows as Nash Bridges, MTV's Undressed, and Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender.
