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, and the brother of screenwriter Zack Whedon and of filmmaker

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Career

Alongside his brothers Joss and Zack and his then fiancée Maurissa Tancharoen, he co-created and co-wrote the musical '' Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'' as well as playing almost every instrumental part. It was the subject of a salute by The Paley Center for Media and won an

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for Outstanding Special Class – Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs. Prior to ''Dr. Horrible'', Whedon composed scores for video games, and was a member of his now defunct Los Angeles-based band The Southland. In 2010, he released an album entitled ''History of Forgotten Things'' under the band name "Jed Whedon and the Willing". Assisting him on the album were his wife Maurissa Tancharoen and their mutual friend Felicia Day, The Southland's guitarist and co-songwriter Nicholas Gusikoff and bassist Ethan Phillips, Jed's longtime friends Amir Yaghmai and Beau Barbour, and Jed's brothers Zack and Sam. With Felicia Day, he composed the music to the song "

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" and music and lyrics for ''I'm the one that's cool'' for the web series '' The Guild'', the videos for which he also directed. He and his wife, Maurissa, were staff writers on '' Dollhouse'', the

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series created by his older brother Joss, prior to its cancellation. They then joined the staffs of '' Spartacus: Blood and Sand'', co-created by former

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writer

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, and '' Drop Dead Diva''. In 2012, he released an EP with his wife Maurissa titled ''This Girl'', which includes the track "Remains", written in 2009 for the TV show Dollhouse's season one finale, "Epitaph". Assisting on album are Felicia Day singing backing vocals on "Second Nature" and "Mr. Electric" and Sam Whedon playing guitar on "Dangerous". In contrast to most of Jed's other music, lyrics are credited to Maurissa first on this record. The following year, both he and his wife sang on Joss' original score for his movie Much Ado About Nothing. Whedon worked with his wife (Maurissa) and brother, Joss, on ''

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''. He and Maurissa worked as showrunners, producers, and writers for the ABC show Marvel's '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' from 2013 to 2020. In 2016, his band, Jed Whedon and the Willing, released their second studio album, an EP titled ''Like Snow'' with assistance from longtime musical collaborators Amir Yaghmai and Zack Whedon.

Awards

For his work on ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'', Whedon won two

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s for Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series and Best Original Music for a Web Series.

Personal life

On April 19, 2009, he married fellow screenwriter Maurissa Tancharoen.Official Dr. Horrible Twitter updates
Maurissa and Jed are getting married in less than 48 hoursMaurissa Tancharoen Whedon
/ref> Their first child was born in 2015.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Whedon, Jed 1974 births 21st-century American singers American male screenwriters American rock singers American television producers Hugo Award-winning writers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Whedon family