Draft:Elijah Aron

Aron attended Harvard University and graduated with the Class of 1992. By his own account, he found he could not compete academically and threw himself into extracurriculars instead; he wrote plays and musicals, made short films with classmates, and took animation classes with Derek Lamb and Janet Perlman.^[5] After college he moved to San Francisco, where he and several friends from Harvard converted an old shoe store into a theater. The company staged surrealist and experimental shows, but Aron struggled financially and worked as a temp and in a bookstore to support himself.^[5]

Aron's first television work was writing scripts for the Sci Fi Channel series Black Scorpion. He moved to Los Angeles in 2000 and took a job as a development executive at Disney Television Animation, reading scripts, reviewing storyboards, and evaluating pitches.^[5] He transitioned to writing when he joined the staff of Drawn Together (2004–2007), an animated parody of reality television on Comedy Central.^[6] Over the next decade he wrote for several network comedies; his credits from this period include It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Better Off Ted, and all four seasons of Raising Hope (2010–2014).^[1][6]

In 2015 Aron joined BoJack Horseman, created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. He started as a consulting producer and later became co-executive producer, working on 56 episodes over five years.^[7] He and Jordan Young wrote the season-three episode "Fish Out of Water" (2016), in which BoJack attends a film festival underwater and cannot speak to anyone around him. The episode has fewer than three minutes of audible dialogue; Aron and Young built the script out of scene description rather than spoken lines.^[8] The Ringer noted that Aron and Young managed to fold a one-off adventure into the recurring concerns of the series as a whole.^[9] "Fish Out of Water" was nominated for the WGA Award for Television: Animation and for Best Animated Television Production at the 44th Annie Awards.^[2][10]

Aron wrote the season-six premiere, "A Horse Walks into a Rehab" (2019), and received another WGA nomination for it.^[11] He was also among the credited producers when "Free Churro" was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program at the 71st Creative Arts Emmys in 2019; it was the first time the series had been recognized in that category.^[3][12]

After BoJack Horseman, Aron moved to Undone (2019–2022), a rotoscoped animated series created by Kate Purdy and Bob-Waksberg for Amazon. He served as co-executive producer and wrote for both seasons.^[13] His episode "Rectify," co-written with Patrick Metcalf, won the WGA Award for Television: Animation at the 75th ceremony in March 2023.^[4][14] He has since worked on the HBO Max animated series Velma and on Long Story Short (2025).^[1]