Alfred Gough

Alfred Gough (born August 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer and showrunner. He is best known as co-creator of The CW's Superman prequel television series Smallville, as well as co-creating Netflix's Tim Burton's The Addams Family spin-off television series Wednesday. Alongside longtime writing/producing partner Miles Millar, Gough also co-created AMC's wuxia-influenced dystopian television series Into the Badlands and the epic fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles (based on The Sword of Shannara Trilogy book trilogy by Terry Brooks). Among his many feature film credits are Tom Dey's Shanghai Noon, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 and Rob Cohen's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Early life Born in Leonardtown, Maryland, Gough graduated from St. Mary's Ryken High School (1985) and The Catholic University of America (1989). Gough attended The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California where he teamed up with his writing partner Miles Millar. Gough and Millar sold their first script while still studying at USC. "Mango", a buddy-cop story where a cop who was allergic to animals was paired with an orangutan, sold to New Line Cinema for $400,000. The film was never made, but launched the duo's professional careers.