Hans Tobeason
Hans Tobeason is a television writer and producer who wrote the teleplay for the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "Bounty" together with Michael Sussman and Phyllis Strong. Together with Rick Berman, he also completed a script for the undeveloped project Star Trek: IMAX in 1997.
Tobeason graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1976 and from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981. In 1988, he wrote the story for the Wiseguy episode "Smokey Mountain Requiem" which starred Jonathan Banks. He then worked as writer and producer on TriBeCa in 1993 for which he shared a Humanitas Prize nomination in the category 60 Minute Category in 1993 and a Writer's Guild of America Award nomination in the category Episodic Drama in 1994 with fellow writing and producing partner David J. Burke. The series starred Joe Morton, with Richard Kiley, Victoria Dillard, Caroline Kava, and Caroline Lagerfelt.
Following TriBeCa, Tobeason was a consulting producer on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. and a supervising producer and writer on seaQuest DSV (1993-94, starring Stacy Haiduk, Stephanie Beacham, Marco Sanchez, Frank Welker, Richard Herd, and W. Morgan Sheppard). Further projects as producer and writer include The Marshal (1995), The Visitor (1997), Strange World (1999), and Now and Again (1999). He also created the television movie DayBreak in 1998 as a pilot episode for a series which was not picked up.
Between 2002 and 2003, he worked as co-executive producer on Birds of Prey which starred Trek guest stars Ian Abercrombie and Dina Meyer. In addition, he wrote the story for the episode "Sins of the Mother" in 2002 and was featured as an actor, a metahuman killed during an experiment, in the final episode "Devil's Eyes" for which he wrote the teleplay in 2003. Prior to his work on Birds of Prey, Tobeason worked as creator, executive producer and writer on Freedom between 2000 and 2001.
In 2007, Tobeason was executive producer on Nashville and between 2007 and 2009 consulting producer/co-executive producer and writer on Saving Grace (starring Holly Hunter and Leon Rippy). The following years he worked as co-executive producer and writer on V (2011), as consulting producer and writer on Damages (2012), and as co-executive producer and writer on Cult (2013). The latter one starred Robert Knepper and Aisha Hinds and had Star Trek: Voyager scribe David Kemper as consulting producer.
Tobeason later worked as executive producer on Believe (2014) for which he also wrote the first season episode "Second Chance". The series featured recurring actor Nick E. Tarabay and was executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk.