Brendan Hay is an American screenwriter, comic book creator and a television producer. Hay is executive producer of the Gremlins animated prequel series and former showrunner of Harvey Girls Forever! and Dawn of the Croods, both for DreamWorks Animation and Netflix.[1] He is also a former showrunner of Brickleberry and Rick and Morty.
Hay has worked for The Daily Show as a headline producer and was a contributing writer for the America (The Book). More recently, he has written for The Simpsons (his first credited episode is the season 20 finale "Coming to Homerica"), Robot Chicken (Emmy nominated in 2011 and 2015 [2]), The Mighty B!, Frank TV, and he was the head writer on the animated Star Wars comedy, Star Wars Detours,[3][4] for Lucasfilm Animation.