Biography
Todd W. Langen is an American screenwriter and former aerospace engineer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and worked on the space shuttle programme for Hughes Aircraft Company before turning to screenwriting.
His early television credits include an episode of the short-lived series Pursuit of Happiness (1987) and regular writing contributions to The Wonder Years, for which he received a Writers Guild of America Award for episodic comedy, a Humanitas Prize and a Primetime Emmy nomination. Langen performed a page-one rewrite of the script for the live-action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), originally by Bobby Herbeck, and received sole screenplay credit on the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991).
