Scriptwriter , Executive Producer

A bilingual writer/director, Weiko was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the U.S. when he was eight years-old.

He is a director in the Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative Program where he shadowed on 9-1-1 LONESTAR. In 2018, he wrote a pilot EXCLUSIVELY CHLOE based on a Penguin YA Novel for Super Deluxe and adapted the feature RIVER TOWN, based on the New York Times Notable Book and bestselling memoir by MacArthur Fellow Peter Hessler for Fugitive Films and director Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death, Disney Nature’s Born in China). He has written for Shanghai Disney Opening Ceremony as well as other projects for The Mark Gordon Company, Ivanhoe Pictures (now SK Global), Don Mischer Productions, the Unison Company (Taiwan), and Wanda Pictures (China). He is currently developing a World War II feature biopic with producer Andrew Lazar of Mad Chance Productions (American Sniper).

Fluent in Mandarin, he produced and co-wrote the Chinese-language romance film 100 DAYS, which premiered at 2013 Hawaii International Film Festival followed by nationwide theatrical release in Taiwan. It premiered in Mainland China as an official selection of the 2014 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.

A Fulbright Senior Specialist, Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award recipient, and AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship Finalist, Weiko earned his MFA in Film and TV from UCLA. From the publisher of Save the Cat! and The Writers Journey, his book CRAZY SCREENWRITING SECRETS is available wherever books are sold.

A current active member of Writers Guild of America West and advisor for Sundance Institute Collab, Weiko is represented by Anonymous Content and United Talent Agency.