Rideback is represented by UTA and Myman Greenspan. Yu is represented by UTA, The Book Group and Hansen Jacobson. Waititi represented by CAA, Manage-ment, ID and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman. Yang is repped by Artists First, CAA, SRDA. Yu holds several years of writing experience in the TV space, having penned episodes of HBO’s “Westworld,” FX’s “Legion,” AMC’s “Lodge 49” and Facebook’s “Sorry For Your Loss.” His previous printed works include the novel “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,” published in 2010, and short story collections “Third Class Superhero” and “Sorry Please Thank You.” Taiki Waititi will direct the pilot as well as serve as an executive producer with Participant’s Jeff Skoll, Miura Kite, and Dive’s Garrett Basch. Yu will also serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Dan Lin, Lindsey Liberatore, Elsie Choi for Rideback. His fiction, non-fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared online and in print in different publications, namely The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Wired.Rideback, Participant and Dive will executive produce the series which hails from 20th Television. He has written for TV shows on media such as AMC, FX and Facebook Watch.
He has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his production the HBO series Westworld. He was named a “5 under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation by Richard Powers. He has worked in several law firms before becoming a full-time writer. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in molecular and cellular biology and minoring in creative writing, he obtained his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. His latest novel, Interior Chinatown, won the National Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Charles Yu is an American writer who is the author of four books, including the award-winning novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown.
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