In 1995, Schwartz attended film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California (USC). He attended Providence's private Wheeler School, a coeducational independent day school, for 11 years, graduating with the class of 1994. By age twelve, he had a subscription to the entertainment industry newspaper Variety. When Schwartz was seven years old, he won an essay-writing contest at Summer camp for a review of the recently released movie Gremlins the opening line was "Spielberg has done it again" and stood out amongst the other submissions. Schwartz always had ambitions of being a writer since early childhood. Schwartz grew up on the east side of Providence, Rhode Island with a younger brother, Danny, and a younger sister, Katie. His parents were both toy inventors at Hasbro, working on the development of toys such as Transformers and My Little Pony, until they went on to start their own company. Schwartz was born to a Jewish family in 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Steve and Honey Schwartz. Schwartz is also known for developing The CW's series Gossip Girl based on the book of the same name and for co-creating NBC's action-comedy-spy series, Chuck.Īt 26, he became one of the youngest people in network history to create a series and run its day-to-day production when he ran The O.C. He is best known for creating and executive producing the Fox teen drama series The O.C. Joshua Ian Schwartz (born August 6, 1976) is an American screenwriter and television producer.
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