J.J. Abrams serves as creator and executive producer of Alias and co-creator and executive producer of Lost. Alias won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Drama and received an outstanding 11 Emmy nominations in its freshman season, including a nod to Abrams for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the Alias pilot. It also received another 11 Emmy nominations for the second season. In addition to writing and directing both the pilot and season finale, Abrams composed the series’ theme music. He made his first foray into television with Felicity, which ran for four seasons on The WB. He served as the show’s co-creator and executive producer, co-wrote the theme song and made his directorial debut with a two-part episode in the series’ first season.

Screenwriter of such films as Armageddon, Forever Young and Regarding Henry, Abrams developed a passion for movies at the age of eight, when his grandfather took him on the Universal Studios tour. Over the next 10 years he made a number of student films, which he entered in various film festivals, winning several awards. It was through these festivals that, at age 13, he met Matt Reeves, his collaborator on Felicity.

Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Abrams attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York where, during his senior year, he teamed with a friend to write a feature film treatment. Purchased by Touchstone Pictures, the treatment was the basis for Taking Care of Business, Abrams’ first produced film, which starred Charles Grodin and James Belushi. He followed that up with Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson. Abrams then collaborated with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay on the summer 1998 blockbuster, Armageddon. Most recently he co-wrote and produced the film Joy Ride.

Other feature producing credits include the The Pallbearer, directed by Reeves, and the independent film The Suburbans, with Jennifer Love Hewitt. He also appeared on screen as an actor in Six Degrees of Separation and Diabolique.

Abrams, his wife and two young children divide their time between Los Angeles and Maine.