Bio
Andrew Chapman was born and raised in New York City. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, and then got his BA in history and economics from the University of Michigan. He has worked as a bartender, a bicycle messenger, a bootleg T-shirt salesman and a TV commercial location scout.
He moved to Los Angeles in his 20s and starting working in movie production, writing screenplays in his spare time. At 28, he sold an adaption of Jack London’s SEA WOLF to Sony Pictures for $1,000,000. By 32, he had spent every last penny.
Andrew has written on numerous movies and television shows. He was the first writer on Disney’s POCAHONTAS, as well as Marvel’s IRON MAN, and has also written for Universal, Amblin, Warner Brothers and Fox Studios. He wrote and directed the indie movie STAND-OFF for Trimark Pictures.
For the last decade, Andrew has worked almost exclusively in television. He has written pilots for most of the major networks, including ABC, NBC, Amazon, and FOX. He executive produced and was showrunner for ABC’s THE ASSETS, a Moscow-based spy mini-series. He was a co-EP on TNT’s LEGENDS, and is currently the Executive Producer and showrunner for FOX’s hit medical drama, THE RESIDENT.
Under the pen name Drew Chapman, he has published two thrillers, THE ASCENDANT (Booklist, in a starred review: “a must-read for international-thriller fans”) and THE KING OF FEAR (WSJ: “a whirlwind thriller”), which were published by Simon & Schuster in 2014 and 2016 respectively and also sold in a dozen translation markets, including all major European territories.
Last year he had his first play produced, 99 TROPES, a dramedy about a writers’ room in disarray.