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name: "Hilary Winston"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 September 1976"
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# Hilary Winston

Writer. Born 24 September 1976 in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 September 1976, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
- **Also known as:** Hilary E. Winston

## Biography

Hilary Winston is an American television writer and producer. She was born on 24 September 1976 in Corpus Christi, Texas. After studying at George Washington University, she began her career writing for series including *Blue Collar TV* and *Just for Kicks*.

Winston rose to prominence as a writer and producer on *My Name Is Earl* (2005–2009). She later contributed as a writer and co-executive producer on *Community* (2009–2011), writing seven episodes. Subsequent credits include writing and producing roles on *Happy Endings* (2011–2013), creating and showrunning the CBS series *Bad Teacher* (2014), and writing for *Dr. Ken* (2015–2017). She has also written for *The Lego Ninjago Movie* (2017), *The Bad Guys* (2022) and the Disney+ series *Goosebumps* (2023–2025), serving as showrunner on the latter. In 2012 she published the memoir *My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me*.

*Sources: community-sitcom.fandom.com, tviv.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Community* (2009), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/community.md)

## Also known for

- *The Lego Ninjago Movie* (2017), Story
- *My Name Is Earl* (2005), Writer
- *Goosebumps* (2023), Writer
- *Happy Endings* (2011), Writer
- *Dr. Ken* (2015), Writer
- *Goosebumps: The Vanishing* (2025), Writer
- *Bad Teacher* (2014), Writer
- *Krapopolis* (2023), Writer

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