---
name: "Brendan Hay"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brendan-hay"
fi1m_id: "brendan-hay"
imdb_id: "nm1016828"
tmdb_id: 1219672
wikidata_id: "Q4960922"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 February 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:40:48.597315+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brendan Hay

## Identity

Brendan Hay

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brendan-hay
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brendan-hay
- **IMDb ID:** nm1016828
- **TMDB ID:** 1219672
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4960922
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hay, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1016828/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219672

Writer. Born 19 February 1979 in Long Island, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 February 1979, Long Island, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hay, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1016828/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219672

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brendan Hay is an American screenwriter, television producer and comic book creator. Born on 19 February 1979 on Long Island, New York, he grew up in Carle Place and attended Carle Place High School. He studied at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Hay began his career at *The Daily Show with Jon Stewart*, where he worked as a writer and producer. He has written for *The Simpsons* (his credited episode is the season 20 finale 'Coming to Homerica'), *Robot Chicken* (for which he received two Primetime Emmy nominations), *The Mighty B!*, *Frank TV* and other series. He served as showrunner and executive producer on the DreamWorks Animation Netflix series *Dawn of the Croods* and *Harvey Girls Forever!*, and as executive producer and writer on *Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai*.

Hay has also written comic books, including the graphic novel *Rascal Raccoon's Raging Revenge* and work for Boom! Studios. He is married to freelance writer Jennifer Chen.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, simpsonswiki.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *The Mighty Ones* (2020), series, Story
- *Harvey Girls Forever!* (2018), series, Creator
- *Dawn of the Croods* (2015), series, Sound Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Story, Creator
- *Zip Zip* (2015), series, Writer
- *The Mighty B!* (2008), series, Writer
- *Robot Chicken* (2005), series, Writer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

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