Biography
Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known as the creator of the TV series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), The Vampire Diaries (2009–present), The Following (2013–2015) and Stalker (2014–2015). He is also widely known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels Scream 2 and Scream 4. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Ti...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Scream 7
2026
Executive Producer, Characters, Director
The seventh installment in the 'Scream' franchise. Plot TBA.

The Exorcism
2024
Producer
A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his ...

Scream VI
2023
Executive Producer, Characters
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

Sick
2022
Producer, Writer
While quarantining at her family's lake house during the pandemic, Parker and her best friend are threatened by an unexpected visitor.

Scream
2022
as Party Guest (voice) (uncredited)
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targetin...

Scream
2022
Characters, Executive Producer
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targetin...

Scream 4
2011
Characters, Screenplay, Producer
Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of ...

Scream: The Inside Story
2011
as Self
In 1996, the horror master Wes Craven unleashed Scream, a slasher movie aimed at a whole new generation of teenage movie-goers.

Venom
2005
Producer
A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in h...

Cursed
2005
Producer, Screenplay
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the cur...

Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)
2003
Writer
With its series-finale episode, Dawson's Creek summed up its six-year run on the WB Network with a sweet and sad tale of reunion and farewell for old ...

Behind the Scream
2000
as Self
A documentary on the 'Scream' trilogy.

Scream 3
2000
Characters, Producer
While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises...

Teaching Mrs. Tingle
1999
Director, Writer
A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade...

The Faculty
1998
Screenplay
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicio...

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
Co-Executive Producer
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael ...

Scream 2
1997
as Cotton's Interviewer
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string ...

Scream 2
1997
Screenplay, Characters, Executive Producer
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string ...

I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997
Screenplay
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly...

Scream
1996
Screenplay
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part o...

Strip for Action
1995
as Haker
Two beautiful hostages find themselves pitted against cold-blooded killers intent on escaping with a million dollars in 'laundered' currency. Stranded...
The Faculty
N/A
Original Film Writer
When a high school newspaper photographer witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.