Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis (born 1975) is an American writer and television producer best known as the creator of the crime drama Criminal Minds and of the supernatural series Teen Wolf and its later film reboot. Born in Milford, Connecticut, he studied film at Vassar College and screenwriting at the University of Southern California, and worked as a script reader and in technical support while trying to sell his scripts. In 2003 he sold a script to CBS Television that became Criminal Minds, on which he served as co-executive producer in its first season. In 2011 he took up a reboot of the 1980s comedy Teen Wolf for MTV, acting as executive producer, head writer and show creator. He later developed a series adaptation of Let the Right One In and signed a deal with MTV Entertainment Studios through his company First Cause in 2021.