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Matt Selman is an American writer who has written several episodes for The Simpsons. Selman was one of eleven writers that worked on The Simpsons Movie. He was also interviewed in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!. He is also one of the writers of The Simpsons: Tapped Out's dialogues.
Selman is married to Renee Ridgeley, who is an occasional voice actress for The Simpsons.
Early life
Selman grew up in Waterton, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 after majoring in history. He was editor in chief of the magazine 34th Street Magazine and had an internship at the Philadelphia.
Career
He co-wrote for a Seinfield episode after sending sample material out for two years. In 1997 he joined the Simpsons and is currently an executive producer.
He is writing the screenplay for a film adaptation of Ricky Gervais' Flanimals.
Awards
- 1999
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Viva Ned Flanders (with other staff)
- Won a Annie for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production for Simpsons Bible Stories (with Tim Long and Larry Doyle)
- 2000
- 2001
- Won an for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for HOMЯ (with other staff)
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Future-Drama (with other staff)
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- Nominated for an Annie for Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production for the Simpsons Movie (with James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti)
- Won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Animation for The Haw-Hawed Couple
- 2009
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Gone Maggie Gone (with other staff)
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy Series (with other writers)
Credits
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Executive story editor
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Supervising producer
Co-executive producer
Executive producer
 Episode – "Mommie Beerest" - Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
- Episode – "Pranksta Rap"
- Episode – "There's Something About Marrying"
- Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
- Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan"
- Episode – "Mobile Homer"
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
- Episode – "Future-Drama"
- Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer"
- Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid"
- Episode – "A Star Is Torn"
- Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday"
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
- Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"
- Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees"
- Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
- Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog"
 THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" (as Matt Wolfman)- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning"
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
- Episode – "The Italian Bob"
- Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'owhere"
- Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
- Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
- Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies"
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"
- Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie"
- Episode – "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore"
- Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
- Episode – "Regarding Margie"
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
- Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
- Episode – "Jazzy & The Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as Selman of the Corn)
- Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
- Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa"
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"
- Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
- Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
- Episode – "Springfield Up"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh"
- Episode – "Homerazzi"
- Episode – "Marge Gamer"
- Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
- Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot"
- Episode – "24 Minutes"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want"
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode – "The Homer of Seville"
- Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
- Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (as Matt Saruman)
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
- Episode – "Husbands and Knives"
- Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
- Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum"
- Episode – "That '90s Show"
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Episode – "The Debarted"
- Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder"
- Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
- Episode – "All About Lisa"
- Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as 'Enter Selman' by Mattallica)
- Episode – "Dangerous Curves"
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen"
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
- Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
- Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
- Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
- Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
- Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
- Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
- Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Bad Smell-Man)
- Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
- Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
- Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
- Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
- Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
- Episode – "The Color Yellow"
- Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge"
- Episode – "Stealing First Base"
- Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
- Episode – "American History X-cellent"
- Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
- Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
- Episode – "To Surveil, with Love"
- Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
- Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
- Episode – "Judge Me Tender"
- Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
- Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
- Episode – "MoneyBart"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as Scary Hat Selman)
- Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
- Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
- Episode – "Donnie Fatso"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe"
- Episode – "Homer the Father"
- Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
- Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
- Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
- Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
- Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
- Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
- Episode – "500 Keys"
- Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"
- Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
- Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (as Selmania)
- Episode – "Replaceable You"
- Episode – "The Food Wife"
- Episode – "The Book Job"
- Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
- Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"
- Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"
- Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
- Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
- Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
- Episode – "At Long Last Leave"
- Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
- Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother"
- Episode – "Them, Robot"
- Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
- Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"
- Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
- Episode – "Ned 'N' Edna's Blend"
- Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"
- Episode – "Moonshine River"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (as Humatt Selmanpede)
- Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting"
- Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"
- Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
- Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
- Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
- Episode – "To Cur, with Love"
- Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"
- Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
- Episode – "Changing of the Guardian"
- Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"
- Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing"
- Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
- Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
- Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
- Episode – "Whiskey Business"
- Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
- Episode – "Dangers on a Train"
- Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
- Episode – "Homerland"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (as Spooky Selman Hell Dream)
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
- Episode – "YOLO"
- Episode – "Labor Pains"
- Episode – "The Kid Is All Right"
- Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge"
- Episode – "White Christmas Blues"
- Episode – "Steal This Episode"
- Episode – "Married to the Blob"
- Episode – "Specs and the City"
- Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much"
- Episode – "Diggs"
- Episode – "The Winter of His Content"
- Episode – "The War of Art"
- Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"
- Episode – "Luca$"
- Episode – "Days of Future Future"
- Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"
- Episode – "Brick Like Me"
- Episode – "Pay Pal"
- Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"
- Episode – "Clown in the Dumps"
- Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
- Episode – "Super Franchise Me"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (as Monster Mash Selman)
- Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
- Episode – "Simpsorama"
- Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
- Episode – "Covercraft"
- Episode – "I Won't Be Home For Christmas"
- Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
- Episode – "Bart's New Friend"
- Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth"
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
- Episode – "My Fare Lady"
- Episode – "The Princess Guide"
- Episode – "Sky Police"
- Episode – "Waiting for Duffman"
- Episode – "Peeping Mom"
- Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight"
- Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot"
- Episode – "Bull-E"
- Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"
- Episode – "Every Man's Dream"
- Episode – "'Cue Detective"
- Episode – "Puffless"
- Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (as The Necromattselmanicon)
- Episode – "Friend with Benefit"
- Episode – "Lisa with an "S""
- Episode – "Paths of Glory"
- Episode – "Barthood"
- Episode – "The Girl Code"
- Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
- Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"
- Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
- Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
- Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"
- Episode – "The Burns Cage"
- Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"
- Episode – "Fland Canyon"
- Episode – "To Courier with Love"
- Episode – "Simprovised"
- Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow"
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
- Episode – "Friends and Family"
- Episode – "The Town"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (as Selman's Lot)
 Special – Planet of the Couches - Episode – "Trust But Clarify"
- Episode – "There Will Be Buds"
- Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend"
- Episode – "Dad Behavior"
- Episode – "The Last Traction Hero"
- Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"
- Episode – "Pork and Burns"
- Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One"
- Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"
- Episode – "Fatzcarraldo"
- Episode – "The Cad and the Hat"
- Episode – "Kamp Krustier"
- Episode – "22 for 30"
- Episode – "A Father's Watch"
- Episode – "The Caper Chase"
- Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"
- Episode – "Moho House"
- Episode – "Dogtown"
- Episode – "The Serfsons"
- Episode – "Springfield Splendor"
- Episode – "Whistler's Father"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" (as The Inviselman Man)
- Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me"
- Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
- Episode – "Singin' in the Lane"
- Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus"
- Episode – "Gone Boy"
- Episode – "Haw-Haw Land"
- Episode – "Frink Gets Testy"
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External links
Matt Selman at the Internet Movie Database
Matt Selman at Wikipedia
Matt Selman at MobyGames
Matt Selman at Twitter
