Jared Hedges is a writer/producer for television and video games. He was born in 1980 in Dallas, Texas, and majored in screenwriting

Screenwriting

Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....

 at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. Most of his work has consisted of English adaptation (aka ADR) scripts for anime series. He has written for FUNimation since 1999, working as Head Writer on shows including Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist

, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...

, Samurai 7

Samurai 7

is a 2004 anime TV series, produced by Gonzo and based on Akira Kurosawa's highly regarded 1954 movie Seven Samurai. The series was directed by Toshifumi Takizawa and its music was composed by Kaoru Wada and Eitetsu Hayashi...

, Speed Grapher

Speed Grapher

is a 2005 anime series created by Gonzo. The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005 on TV Asahi. In 2006, it was licensed for release in North America by Funimation Entertainment and aired on the Independent Film Channel between March 7 and August 15, 2008...

, Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase-

Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase-

is a manga series by Keitarō Arima about a young vampire girl named Hazuki and a Japanese freelance photographer Kouhei Morioka whom Hazuki attempts to make into her servant....

, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Tsubasa Chronicle. He has worked smaller stints on Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball, Negima, Case Closed

Case Closed

Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...

, and Darker Than Black

Darker than Black

is an anime television series, created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones. It premiered across Japan from April 5, 2007 on MBS, TBS, and its affiliated broadcast stations, with its satellite television premiere in Japan on Animax in May 2007. The music for the series is...

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Jared's writing team has included Joel Bergen, Kelli Howard, Alex Muniz, Colleen Clinkenbeard

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Colleen Smith Clinkenbeard is an American voice actress, Line Producer, ADR Director, and Script Writer who works for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, and OkraTron 5000. She has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films and series, most notably, Monkey D...

, Bonny Clinkenbeard, Ben Arntz, Michael Ampikapon, Michael B. Steinberg, Laura Moran, and Joelle Sellner.

Other adaptation work includes the feature-length anime Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

is a 2005 Japanese animated film directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Sho Aikawa, and acts as a continuation of the first Fullmetal Alchemist television series...

, and Dragon Ball: The Path to Power.

In 2006, Jared, Joel Bergen and Alex Muniz began writing the English scripts of the anime comedy Shin Chan, which had a six episode trial run on Adult Swim

Adult Swim

Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...

 in the summer of 2006. The first season (episodes 1-20) began airing on Adult Swim April 9, 2007. After a long hiatus, the last six episodes of season one (episodes 21-26) began airing December 10, 2007. Season 2 (episodes 27-52) began airing on April 12, 2008, with writers Michael B. Steinberg, Ben Arntz, Laura Moran, and Joelle Sellner added to the writing team.

Jared appeared at Comic Con 2007 in San Diego and New York Comic Con 2008, promoting Shin Chan.

Jared was the script writer for the game Stuntman: Ignition, by developers THQ

THQ

THQ Inc. is an American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices...

/Paradigm Entertainment

Paradigm Entertainment

Paradigm Entertainment was an American video game development company. Paradigm is perhaps best known for its vehicle simulation games. Founded as a 3D computer graphics company in 1990, Paradigm primarily worked on realistic flight simulation technology for major space and aviation clients...

, which released August 28, 2007. He also wrote English localization scripts for the games Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir

Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir

is the second console role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 based on the series of the same name. It is the prequel of sorts to Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel. The game has much improved visuals than the previous title, as well as all dialog being voiced over...

, Fullmetal Alchemist: Duel Sympathy, and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

Jared has also produced special-feature vignettes for DVD extras, promotional materials, and television shows on the Funimation Channel. This includes The Real Rockstar Dad: Interviews with Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...

, Case Closed 101, the 30 minute documentary Goku vs. Vegeta, and the Otakon

Otakon

Otakon is a fan convention in the United States focusing on East Asian popular culture and its fandom. The name is a portmanteau derived from convention and the Japanese word otaku...

 2006 episode of Anime Road Rage.

More recently, he was enlisted as the Head Writer of the English dub for Sgt. Frog

Sgt. Frog

Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...

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Awards

• 2006 Dubbie Award, Writer of the Year. (animeondvd.com)
• 2008 Shin Chan named "Best Dub" by Anime Insider Magazine, annual "Best of the Best" Awards.
• 2008 Shin Chan named "Best Series on TV" by Anime Insider Magazine, annual "Best of the Best" Awards.