Merriwether Williams

Merriwether St. John Williams (born March 28, 1968) is an American television writer, former Nickelodeon executive, and voice actress whose writing credits include SpongeBob SquarePants, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Camp Lazlo, Adventure Time, and Pig Goat Banana Cricket.

Career After leaving the executive ranks at Nickelodeon, she wrote outlines for SpongeBob SquarePants and episodes of The Angry Beavers. In 2003, she developed and became the show-runner and head writer of the short-lived Showtime animated sitcom Free For All. In 2005, she became the head of story for Camp Lazlo at Cartoon Network.

More recently, Williams has written several episodes for Adventure Time, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Pig Goat Banana Cricket. She has also written an episode for Johnny Test and Pound Puppies. She is formerly co-producer and writer on Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer.

She has also co-written the films Good Time Max, The Ape, and Fool's Gold with actor James Franco.

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes 1996–1997 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Story Editor Seasons 3–4 Rugrats Story Consultant Season 4 1997–2000 The Angry Beavers Story Editor & Writer 1998–2000 The Wild Thornberrys Story Editor & Story Consultant 1999 Fashionably L.A. Actress Receptionist KaBlam! Additional Writing Segment: Stewy the Dogboy 1999–2004 SpongeBob SquarePants Story Editor, Writer, & Executive Story Editor, Actress, Story Actress of Subliminal Message Girl 2003 Free for All Developer, Writer, & Executive Producer 2005–2008 Camp Lazlo Story & Story Editor 2010–2011 Adventure Time Story & Story Editor Seasons 1–2 2011 Johnny Test Writer Episode: "Johnny's World Record" 2011–2013 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Writer & Songwriter Seasons 2–4 2012 Pound Puppies Writer & Songwriter Episode: "Salty" 2012–2014 Littlest Pet Shop Writer: Story & Teleplay Seasons 1–3 2013 SheZow Writer Episode: "SheZon's Greetings" 2015–2017 Pig Goat Banana Cricket Writer, Story 2017 Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer Co-producer, Writer and Story Editor

Film

Year Title Role Notes 2005 The Ape Writer: Screenplay 2005 Fool's Gold Writer: Screenplay 2007 Diggs Tailwagger Writer Pilot 2007 Where's Lazlo? Story TV movie 2007 Good Time Max Writer 2016 Toasty Tales Writer & Story Editor