Angela Kang

This article is about the showrunner. For other pages with the same name, see: Angela

Angela Kang
Contributions	Showrunner and writer for the TV Series Executive producer of Daryl Dixon
Occupation	Writer Showrunner
Born	March 23, 1976 Irvine, California, U.S.
Age	48
Years Active	2004-Present
Gender	Female
Hair	Brown
Ethnicity	Korean-American

Angela Kang is an American television writer who served as a writer and story editor of AMC's The Walking Dead. She was the showrunner from Season 9 to Season 11.

Biography

Angela Kang received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theater from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, after which she had several short stories and poems published and also wrote a number of plays. She eventually returned to school, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in screenwriting from the University of Southern California. Her first job in the television industry came when she worked as an intern for the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.

Her first job as a staff writer was for the unaired NBC post-apocalyptic series Day One, which she got coming out of graduate school. Shortly thereafter, she was hired as a staff writer on the short-lived FX series Terriers, of which she wrote two episodes. In 2011, she joined the writing staff of the acclaimed horror drama series, The Walking Dead. In 2018, she became showrunner of The Walking Dead with its ninth season.

Episodes Written

Season 2

• "Secrets"
• "Judge, Jury, Executioner"

Season 3

• "Say the Word"
• "I Ain't a Judas"

Season 4

• "Infected"
• "Still"
• "A" (with Scott Gimple)

Season 5

• "Four Walls and a Roof" (with Corey Reed)
• "Coda"
• "Try"

Season 6

• "Thank You"
• "The Next World" (with Corey Reed)
• "The Same Boat"

Season 7

• "The Cell"
• "Sing Me a Song" (with Corey Reed)
• "Rock in the Road"
• "The Other Side"
• "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" (with Scott Gimple & Matt Negrete)

Season 8

• "The Big Scary U"
  • Story (with Scott Gimple & David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick)
  • Teleplay (with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick)
• "The King, the Widow, and Rick" (with Corey Reed)
• "How It's Gotta Be" (with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick)
• "The Lost and the Plunderers" (with Channing Powell & Corey Reed)
• "Do Not Send Us Astray" (with Matt Negrete)
• "Wrath" (with Scott Gimple & Matt Negrete)

Season 9

• "A New Beginning"
• "The Storm" (with Matt Negrete)

Season 10

• "Lines We Cross"

Season 11

• "Acheron: Part I" (with Jim Barnes)
• "Acheron: Part II" (with Jim Barnes)
• "Rest in Peace"
  • Story

Trivia

• Her son, Ethan Charles, portrayed Glenn's and Maggie's son, Hershel, in a dream sequence in the Season 7 premiere "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be".

External Links

• Angela Kang at the Internet Movie Database
• Angela Kang on Wikipedia
• Follow Angela Kang on Instagram
• Follow Angela Kang (@angelakang) on X

• TV Series
• Daryl Series