Aaron Waltke

Waltke began his television career producing and directing documentaries for PBS, through his work with WTIU at Indiana University. After moving to Los Angeles, he was hired as a writer and producer by National Lampoon Inc. to produce original content for their online comedy and college television networks.[9]

In 2014, he joined the writers room of Guillermo del Toro's award-winning Netflix series Trollhunters, for which he was twice-nominated and won an Emmy Award in the category of "Best Writing for an Animated Series", and was nominated for an Annie Award.[10] He later became co-executive producer and co-showrunner on the final installment of the franchise, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia, for which he co-wrote the pilot with del Toro and was nominated for a Kidscreen Award for "Best New Series."[11] [12]

He also served as co-head writer for a Cartoon Network spinoff of The LEGO Movie entitled Unikitty! produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[13] While there, he co-wrote an episode of Teen Titans Go! for the same creative team.[14]

On July 30th, 2019, it was announced Waltke had joined the forthcoming television series Star Trek: Prodigy as a writer and producer for the project, which marks the first CBS Studios and Nickelodeon co-production in the Star Trek franchise. He previously collaborated with the show's creators, Dan and Kevin Hageman, on Trollhunters. [15]

On October 15th, 2020, Legion M announced that Waltke was attached to develop and executive produce an adult animated television series with Powerhouse Animation based on George Mann's Ghosts of Manhattan novels, an action sci-fi noir story set in an alternate history 1920s New York.[16]