John Shiban

John Shiban is an American television writer and producer, who regularly worked on television series, as well as the short-lived spin-off series The Lone Gunmen. With fellow writers and , he was partly responsible for creating The Lone Gunmen series.
After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Batchelor of Arts degree in English Literature, Shiban earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where he was chosen as the institute's candidate for the Paramount Fellowship and was also honored with the Mary Pickford Scholarship for writing.
In 1995, Shiban began his career with The X-Files as an uncredited staff writer in the series' . On most of the episodes he contributed to as a writer, Shiban co-wrote with Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz. He also wrote several episodes of The Lone Gunmen series, again mostly with Gilligan and Spotnitz, and served as executive producer throughout the entirety of that short-lived series. After this, he worked on Harsh Realm, a television series created by The X-Files' creator, .
Since the conclusion of The X-Files television series in 2002, Shiban has worked on Star Trek: Enterprise, Supernatural and Threat Matrix. He also made the film Rest Stop.
He has one son, Jerry, with his wife, Janet.
== Trivia ==
In the second movie of X-Files franchise, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the name "Shiban" can clearly be seen on Mulder's cell phone, moments before Mulder becomes distracted by doing so and consequently crashes the car he is driving.
==Credits==
===The X-Files===
Episode 	Credit
Season 3 	Season 3
"The Walk" 	Writer
"Teso Dos Bichos" 	Writer
Season 4 	Season 4
"El Mundo Gira" 	Writer/Story Editor
"Leonard Betts" (writer w/ and ) 	Writer/Story Editor
"Memento Mori" (writer w/ , Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Story Editor
"Elegy" 	Writer/Story Editor
"Herrenvolk 	Story Editor
"Herrenvolk 	Story Editor
"Home 	Story Editor
"Teliko 	Story Editor
"Unruhe 	Story Editor
"The Field Where I Died 	Story Editor
"Sanguinarium 	Story Editor
" 	Story Editor
"Tunguska 	Story Editor
"Terma 	Story Editor
"Paper Hearts 	Story Editor
"Never Again 	Story Editor
"Kaddish 	Story Editor
"Unrequited 	Story Editor
"Tempus Fugit 	Story Editor
"Max 	Story Editor
"Synchrony 	Story Editor
"Small Potatoes 	Story Editor
"Zero Sum 	Story Editor
"Demons 	Story Editor
"Gethsemane 	Story Editor
Season 5 	Season 5
"Christmas Carol" (Writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Co-Producer
"Emily" (Writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Co-Producer
"Travelers" (Writer w/ Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Co-Producer
"All Souls" (Teleplay w/ Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Co-Producer
"The Pine Bluff Variant" 	Writer/Co-Producer
"Redux" 	Co-Producer
"Redux II" 	Co-Producer
"Unusual Suspects" 	Co-Producer
"Detour" 	Co-Producer
"The Post-Modern Prometheus" 	Co-Producer
"Kitsunegari" 	Co-Producer
"Schizogeny" 	Co-Producer
"Chinga" 	Co-Producer
"Kill Switch" 	Co-Producer
"Bad Blood" 	Co-Producer
"Patient X" 	Co-Producer
"The Red and the Black" 	Co-Producer
"Mind's Eye" 	Co-Producer
"Folie à Deux" 	Co-Producer
"The End" 	Co-Producer
Season 6 	Season 6
"Dreamland" (Writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Producer
"Dreamland II" (Writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Producer
"S.R. 819" 	Writer/Producer
"Monday" (Writer w/ Vince Gilligan) 	Writer/Producer
"Milagro" (Story with Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Producer
"Three of a Kind" (Writer w/ Vince Gilligan) 	Writer/Producer
"Field Trip" (Teleplay with Vince Gilligan) 	Writer/Producer
"The Beginning" 	Producer
"Drive" 	Producer
"Triangle" 	Producer
"" 	Producer
"Terms of Endearment" 	Producer
"The Rain King" 	Producer
"Tithonus" 	Producer
"Two Fathers" 	Producer
"One Son" 	Producer
"Agua Mala" 	Producer
"Arcadia" 	Producer
"Alpha" 	Producer
"Trevor" 	Producer
"The Unnatural" 	Producer
"Biogenesis" 	Producer
Season 7 	Season 7
"The Amazing Maleeni" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz)	Writer/Supervising Producer
"Theef" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Supervising Producer
"The Sixth Extinction" 	Supervising Producer
"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" 	Supervising Producer
"Hungry" 	Supervising Producer
"Millennium" 	Supervising Producer
"Rush" 	Supervising Producer
"The Goldberg Variation" 	Supervising Producer
"Orison" 	Supervising Producer
"Signs and Wonders" 	Supervising Producer
"Sein Und Zeit" 	Supervising Producer
"Closure" 	Supervising Producer
"X-Cops" 	Supervising Producer
"First Person Shooter" 	Supervising Producer
"En Ami" 	Supervising Producer
"Chimera" 	Supervising Producer
"all things" 	Supervising Producer
"Brand X" 	Supervising Producer
"Hollywood A.D." 	Supervising Producer
"Fight Club" 	Supervising Producer
"Je Souhaite" 	Supervising Producer
"Requiem" 	Supervising Producer
Season 8 	Season 8
"Badlaa" 	Writer/Co-Executive Producer
"Within 	Co-Executive Producer
"Without 	Co-Executive Producer
"Patience 	Co-Executive Producer
"Roadrunners 	Co-Executive Producer
"Invocation 	Co-Executive Producer
"Redrum 	Co-Executive Producer
"Via Negativa 	Co-Executive Producer
"Surekill 	Co-Executive Producer
"Salvage 	Co-Executive Producer
"The Gift 	Co-Executive Producer
"Medusa 	Co-Executive Producer
"Per Manum 	Co-Executive Producer
"This is Not Happening 	Co-Executive Producer
"DeadAlive 	Co-Executive Producer
"Three Words 	Co-Executive Producer
"Empedocles 	Co-Executive Producer
"Vienen 	Co-Executive Producer
"Alone 	Co-Executive Producer
"Essence 	Co-Executive Producer
"Existence 	Co-Executive Producer
Season 9 	Season 9
"Underneath" 	Director/Writer/Executive Producer
"Jump the Shark" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Executive Producer
"Release" (story with David Amann) 	Writer/Executive Producer
"Nothing Important Happened Today" 	Executive Producer
"Nothing Important Happened Today II" 	Executive Producer
"Dæmonicus" 	Executive Producer
"4-D" 	Executive Producer
"Lord of the Flies" 	Executive Producer
"Trust No 1" 	Executive Producer
"John Doe" 	Executive Producer
"Hellbound" 	Executive Producer
"Provenance" 	Executive Producer
"Providence" 	Executive Producer
"Audrey Pauley" 	Executive Producer
"Improbable" 	Executive Producer
"Scary Monsters" 	Executive Producer
"William" 	Executive Producer
"Sunshine Days" 	Executive Producer
"The Truth" 	Executive Producer
===The Lone Gunmen===
Episode 	Credit
"Pilot" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter)	Writer/Executive Producer
"Bond, Jimmy Bond" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Executive Producer
"Eine Kleine Frohike" 	Writer/Executive Producer
"Diagnosis: Jimmy" 	Writer/Executive Producer
"The Cap'n Toby Show" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz)	Writer/Executive Producer
"All About Yves" (writer w/ Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz) 	Writer/Executive Producer
"Like Water for Octane" 	Executive Producer
"Three Men and a Smoking Diaper" 	Executive Producer
"Madam, I'm Adam" 	Executive Producer
"Planet of the Frohikes" 	Executive Producer
"Maximum Byers" 	Executive Producer
"Tango de los Pistoleros" 	Executive Producer
"The Lying Game" 	Executive Producer
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