Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer are an American screenwriting and producing duo. They have generally worked in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. They have served as showrunners for the TV shows Smallville, Melrose Place, Shadowhunters and The Mysterious Benedict Society, and have also been involved in the shows No Ordinary Family, Alphas, Defiance, Dominion and Guilt. Slavkin has occasionally directed episodes of the TV series in which they are involved.
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Early life
Slavkin and Swimmer met when they were both students at Palms Junior High School in Los Angeles, California; they have been friends ever since.
Career
The two wrote the screenplay for the 1994 TV movie Natural Selection, as well as the 2004 direct-to-video film Control.
From 2003 to 2009, they wrote 24 episodes of Smallville, and received story credit for another two episodes. Slavkin also directed two of the show's episodes. They also helped with the show's production, eventually serving as showrunners for Smallville in its eighth season, from 2008 to 2009, along with Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson, after the departure of original showrunners and series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.
After Smallville's eighth season, the two left to develop and run the series Melrose Place, which lasted for one season from 2009 to 2010. They also wrote the series' pilot and final episodes.
