Merriwether Williams


Merriwether St. John Williams 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 a couple 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996–1997Aaahh!!! Real MonstersStory EditorSeasons 3–4
1996–1997RugratsStory ConsultantSeason 4
1997–2000The Angry BeaversStory Editor & Writer
1998–2000The Wild ThornberrysStory Editor & Story Consultant
1999Fashionably L.A.ActressReceptionist
1999KaBlam!Additional WritingSegment: Stewy the Dogboy
1999–2004SpongeBob SquarePantsStory Editor, Writer, & Executive Story Editor, Actress, StoryActress of Subliminal Message Girl
2003Free for AllDeveloper, Writer, & Executive Producer
2005–2008Camp LazloStory & Story Editor
2010–2011Adventure TimeStory & Story EditorSeasons 1–2
2011Johnny TestWriterEpisode: "Johnny's World Record"
2011–2013My Little Pony: Friendship Is MagicWriter & SongwriterSeasons 2–4
2012Pound PuppiesWriter & SongwriterEpisode: "Salty"
2012–2014Littlest Pet ShopWriter: Story & TeleplaySeasons 1–3
2013SheZowWriterEpisode: "SheZon's Greetings"
2015–2017Pig Goat Banana CricketWriter, Story
2017Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean SummerCo-producer, Writer and Story EditorTBA

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2005The ApeWriter: Screenplay
2005Fool's GoldWriter: Screenplay
2007Diggs TailwaggerWriterPilot
2007Where's Lazlo?StoryTV movie
2007Good Time MaxWriter
2016Toasty TalesWriter & Story Editor