Marti Noxon

Martha Mills "Marti" Noxon (born August 25, 1964) is an American television and film writer first known for writing and producing Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Production

In 1998, beginning with its third season, Noxon became a co-producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 1999, upon the beginning of Buffy spin-off Angel, Noxon was promoted by series creator Joss Whedon to supervising producer for its fourth season, which gave her increasing charge of producing Buffy. During this season, Noxon cast Amber Benson as Tara Maclay.

Noxon would co-produce the show over its fifth season (2000–2001) with fellow executive co-producer David Fury, as well as direct two episodes ("Into the Woods" and "Forever"). At the 6th season's conclusion, fan reaction was mixed, leading some to criticize Whedon for abandoning creative control and stewardship of Buffy to Noxon. In response, Whedon said:

Dis not th' Nox. [...] Marti [...] and I shaped this year very carefully, and while we made mistakes (as we do every year), we made our show. We explored what we wanted to, said what we meant. You don't have to like it, but don't think it comes from neglect.

—Joss Whedon, UPN Bronze VIP Archive for May 22, 2002

Noxon was executive producer of Buffy between 2001 and 2003, for its sixth and seventh seasons.

In the fall of 2005, halfway through its first season, Noxon left Prison Break, where she had been a consulting producer, citing what she called "creative difficulties."

In April 2006, Noxon joined the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters (which would first air that fall) as showrunner. Four months later, she left the show, citing "creative differences" with creator Robin Baitz.^[1]

In September 2006, Noxon joined the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy for its third season, as consulting producer.^[2]

In April 2007, Noxon left Grey's Anatomy to become executive producer and showrunner for Grey's spinoff Private Practice.^[3] She left after its first season to "[move] on to other projects".^[4]

In 2008, Noxon worked as a consulting producer on the AMC drama series Mad Men.

Writing

In 1997, Noxon joined the writing staff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its second season. During her tenure there, she would go on to write or co-write 22 episodes of the series, half of these during her first two years on the show.

In 1999, Noxon co-wrote Just a Little Harmless Sex with Roger Mills.^[5]

In 2004, Noxon wrote and produced a pilot entitled Still Life for Fox about a family recovering from the death of their son, a police officer. The pilot was not picked up.^[6]

In January 2005, Noxon co-created the supernatural drama Point Pleasant with John McLaughlin. Despite an initial strong following, viewership dropped dramatically, and only 11 of the 13 filmed episodes would go on to air on Fox.^[7]

In February 2007, Noxon co-wrote the third-season Grey's Anatomy episode "Some Kind of Miracle" with series creator Shonda Rhimes.^[2]

In late 2007, Noxon served as head writer during the first season of Private Practice, after which she left to "[move] on to other projects".^[4]

In 2008, Noxon co-wrote a second-season episode of the AMC drama series Mad Men, "The Inheritance", for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.^[8] She won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the second consecutive year) at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season of Mad Men.^[9][10]

She wrote the screenplay of the 2011 remake of Fright Night,^[11] directed by Craig Gillespie.^[12]

In 2011, she joined the writing team of FOX's Glee for its third season. And will not be returning, as confirmed on Twitter on 4th June 2012.^[13]

In 2013, she was announced to write the Tomb Raider reboot for MGM and GK Films. ^[14]

Credits

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Noxon joined the Buffy writing staff in the second season as a story editor and wrote several episodes in her first season. She was promoted to co-producer in season three, supervising producer in season four, co-executive producer in season five, and finally to executive producer in season six and also became the showrunner.

• 2x09 "What's My Line (Part 1)" (co-writer; with Howard Gordon)
• 2x10 "What's My Line (Part 2)" (writer)
• 2x12 "Bad Eggs" (writer)
• 2x13 "Surprise" (writer)
• 2x16 "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (writer)
• 2x19 "I Only Have Eyes for You" (writer)
• 3x02 "Dead Man's Party" (writer)
• 3x04 "Beauty and the Beasts" (writer)
• 3x09 "The Wish" (writer)
• 3x15 "Consequences" (writer)
• 3x20 "The Prom" (writer)
• 4x02 "Living Conditions" (writer)
• 4x06 "Wild at Heart" (writer)
• 4x11 "Doomed (co-writer; with David Fury and Jane Espenson)
• 4x14 "Goodbye Iowa" (writer)
• 4x19 "New Moon Rising" (writer)
• 5x01 "Buffy vs. Dracula" (writer)
• 5x10 "Into the Woods" (writer and director)
• 5x17 "Forever" (writer and director)
• 6x01 "Bargaining (Part 1)" (writer)
• 6x10 "Wrecked" (writer)
• 6x20 "Villains" (writer)
• 7x07 "Conversations with Dead People" (uncredited writer)
• 7x10 "Bring on the Night" (co-writer; with Doug Petrie)

Angel

Noxon served as consulting producer for the first three seasons of Angel, doing several uncredited rewrites.

• 1x13 "She" (co-writer; with David Greenwalt)

Point Pleasant

Noxon served as executive producer and showrunner on the series.

• 1x01 "Pilot" (co-writer; with John J. McLaughlin)
• 1x02 "Human Nature" (writer)
• 1x13 "Let the War Commence" (co-writer; with Jenny Lynn)

Glee

Noxon served as consulting producer and writer for the third season. On June 4, 2012, she announced that she would not return for the fourth season.^[15]

• 3x09 "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" (writer)
• 3x18 "Choke" (writer)

Filmography

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2000) (TV)
• Just a Little Harmless Sex (with Roger Mills) (1998)
• Angel (2000) (TV)
• Still Life (2003) (TV)
• Point Pleasant (2005) (TV)
• Brothers & Sisters (2006) (TV)
• Grey's Anatomy (2007) (TV)
• Private Practice (2007–2008) (TV)
• Mad Men (2008–2009) (TV)
• Gigantic (2010) (TV) (Executive Producer)
• I Am Number Four (with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar) (2011)
• Fright Night (2011)
• Glee (2011–2012) (TV) (Consulting Producer)
• Tomb Raider (TBA)

Acting

Noxon had a minor role in the 1997 film Godmoney, and had a cameo appearance in the 2001 Buffy musical episode "Once More, With Feeling" as a woman pleading with a cop over a parking ticket, a role she would reprise in a later episode. In 2002, Noxon sang the Cordy theme song in the third-season Angel episode "Birthday".^[16]

In 2008, Noxon appeared with her former colleague David Fury as newscasters in Buffy creator Joss Whedon's tragicomic musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Personal

Noxon is a graduate of Oakes College at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

See also

• Mutant Enemy Productions

References

External links

• Deconstructing the Emotional Allure - CityofAngel.com
• The 'Grr' In Girl: Marti Noxon fansite
• Lady and the Vamps (MetroActive profile)
• Marti Noxon at the Internet Movie Database