Valentina L. Garza

Valentina L. Garza is an American screenwriter and television producer, known for her work on both animated and live-action television series. She has written for The Simpsons, Jane the Virgin, Only Murders in the Building, XO, Kitty, and Wednesday.

Career

Garza began her television career as a writers' assistant on Los Beltrán, a Spanish-language sitcom that aired on Telemundo and where she wrote her first episode of television. She then joined the Warner Bros. Television Group writer’s workshop and submitted a speculative script that earned her a writing position on The Simpsons.[1] During her six-year tenure on the show, she wrote the episodes Loan-a Lisa, Opposites A-Frack and Four Great Women and a Manicure, the latter earning her an Annie Awards nomination.[2] “Opposites A-Frack” won the 2015 Environmental Media Award for Television Episodic Comedy as it addressed environmental issues surrounding fracking. She later joined the writing staff of the animated series Bordertown and became a key contributor to Jane the Virgin on The CW. In 2018, her episode “Chapter Seventy-Eight” was honored along with “Chapter Eighty” with the Sentinel Award for their exemplary depiction of breast cancer in a comedic series.[3] In 2019, Garza pitched and produced the pilot for a spin-off of Jane the Virgin, but the network ultimately declined to move forward with the project.[4]

Garza worked as a consulting producer on Hulu’s comedy Only Murders in the Building and signed with WME in 2021 to develop original television content.[5][6] She currently serves as executive producer and showrunner of the Netflix teen romance series X.O. Kitty which she joined after completing Season 2 of Wednesday as writer and co-executive producer.[7]

References

  1. ^ Romero, Dennis (May 4, 2016). "How a former Simpsons writer brought a Latina perspective to primetime". LA Weekly. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  2. ^ "37th Annie Awards". Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  3. ^ "2018 Sentinel Awards" (PDF). Hollywood, Health & Society. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  4. ^ Masters, Kim (May 10, 2019). "Valentina Garza and Mike Royce on TV staffing season without agents". KCRW. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  5. ^ "Valentina Garza Signs With WME". Deadline. March 4, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  6. ^ "Dean Georgaris, Valentina Garza Dramas in Development at NBC". Deadline. November 16, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  7. ^ "WGA Directory Valentina Garza". WGA. November 16, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
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