Wellesley Wild is an American

United States

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 animation

Animation

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 writer. He is best known for writing and producing several episodes of the animated series Family Guy

Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...

. He is currently co-executive producer

Executive producer

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 and an occasional voice actor for the show.

Wild attended Westminster School, a Founders League prep school located in Simsbury, Connecticut

Simsbury, Connecticut

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. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.A native of Kent,...

 also attended another Founders League school, the Kent School

Kent School

Kent School is a private, co-educational college preparatory school in Kent, Connecticut, USA. The Reverend Frederick Herbert Sill, Order of the Holy Cross, established the school in 1906 and it retains its affiliation with the Episcopal Church of the United States.Students at Kent come from more...

 in Kent

Kent, Connecticut

Kent is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, alongside the border with New York. The population was 2,858 at the 2000 census. The town is home to three New England boarding schools: South Kent School, Kent School and The Marvelwood School. The Schaghticoke Indian Reservation is also located...

, Connecticut

Connecticut

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.

He was also a writer for The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn during the show's first year.

Career

Wild joined Family Guy in 2005, and has since written and produced multiple episodes, including:
"North by North Quahog

North by North Quahog

"North by North Quahog" is the first episode of season four of Family Guy, following the revival of the series three years after its cancellation in 2002...

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"Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High"
"Petarded

Petarded

"Petarded" is the sixth episode of Fox's fourth season of Family Guy, which originally broadcast in the United States on June 19, 2005. It was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Seth Kearsley. The episode sees Peter taking the MacArthur Fellows Program to see if he is a...

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"PTV

PTV (Family Guy)

"PTV" is the fourteenth episode of season four of the FOX animated series Family Guy. The episode sees the FCC censor the shows on television after a controversial wardrobe malfunction at the Emmy Awards. Peter starts to create his own TV network which he calls PTV, broadcasting classic shows...

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"Petergeist

Petergeist

"Petergeist" is an episode from season four of Fox animated series Family Guy. Peter decides to build a multiplex to top Joe's new home theater, but comes across an Indian skull in his backyard and desecrates it...

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"Untitled Griffin Family History

Untitled Griffin Family History

"Untitled Griffin Family History" is the twenty-seventh episode of the fourth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 14, 2006. The episode begins after robbers break in to the Griffin family home, so the family flees to safety in...

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"Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure"
"Chick Cancer

Chick Cancer

"Chick Cancer" is the seventh episode of season five of Family Guy. The episode originally broadcast on November 26, 2006. In the episode, Stewie's old friend and child actress, Olivia Fuller returns to Quahog...

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"Barely Legal

Barely Legal (Family Guy)

"Barely Legal" is the eighth episode of season five of Family Guy. The episode originally broadcast on December 17, 2006. The plot sees Meg developing an obsession with Brian after he accompanies her as her date for the Junior Prom, eventually leading to her kidnapping Brian in order to engage in...

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"Road to Rupert

Road to Rupert

"Road to Rupert" is the ninth episode of season five of Family Guy. The episode follows Brian after he inadvertently sells Stewie's teddy bear, Rupert, during a yard sale. In an attempt to retrieve him, Stewie and Brian travel across the United States, eventually discovering he is with a child...

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"Airport '07

Airport '07

"Airport '07" is the twelfth episode of season five of Family Guy. The episode originally broadcast on March 4, 2007. The plot follows Quagmire being dismissed from his job as a pilot after Peter decided to remove the airplane fueling hose prematurely...

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"McStroke

McStroke

"McStroke" is the eighth episode of season six of the FOX animated series Family Guy, which originally aired on January 13, 2008. The title is a play on McDonald's terminology of putting "Mc" in front of common words...

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"Long John Peter

Long John Peter

"Long John Peter" is the twelfth episode and the season finale of the sixth season of the animated series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 4, 2008...

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"Tales of a Third Grade Nothing

Tales of a Third Grade Nothing

"Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of Family Guy that aired on November 16, 2008 and ended the first half of the season. The episode's title is an allusion to the Judy Blume children's book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, whose narrator-protagonist is...

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"Family Gay

Family Gay

"Family Gay" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of the animated television comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 8, 2009. In the episode, Peter Griffin purchases a brain damaged horse who ends up causing a great deal of collateral damage at the...

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"Peter's Progress

Peter's Progress

"Peter's Progress" is the sixteenth episode and the season finale of the seventh season of Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 17, 2009...

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"Road to the Multiverse

Road to the Multiverse

"Road to the Multiverse" is the first episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. Directed by Greg Colton and written by Wellesley Wild, the episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2009...

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In August 2010 Wild and his writing partner Alec Sulkin

Alec Sulkin

Alec Sulkin is an American television writer. Most notable for writing and producing several episodes of the animated series Family Guy, he has also contributed to The Cleveland Show, another series by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane....

signed a three-year pact with 20th Century Fox TV. The two will continue working on Family Guy and also develop their own show. It is likely to be live action comedy rather than animation, although Wild said "We've been throwing around both ideas."

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