Before joining THE X-FILES as co-executive producer, R.W. Goodwin was coexecutive producer for the third and fourth season of the critically-acclaimed ABC series "Life Goes On."

Goodwin began his career as a writer and studio executive at Paramount Pictures. He developed a script which became the first "Star Trek" feature and moved on to produce the feature film "Inside Moves," starring John Savage and David Morse.

Goodwin's numerous producer credits for television movies include NBC's "Born Too Soon" with Michael Moriarity and Pamela Reed, "Living a Lie" starring Jill Eikenberry and Peter Coyote, which also aired on NBC, and "California Girls" starring Robby Benson, which aired on ABC. Among his episodic writing and producing credits are "Hooperman" and "Mancuso FBI."

Howard Gordon is a co-executive producer of THE X-FILES, having served as supervising producer during the show's first and second seasons. Gordon has also written several episodes of the series, including "D.P.O," this season's third episode.

After graduating from Princeton University in 1984, Gordon came to Los Angeles with his partner Alex Gansa to pursue a career in writing for television.

After several freelance assignments for the ABC series "Spenser For Hire," the team joined the Emmy-nominated series "Beauty and the Beast" as staff writers, and were later named producers.

Gordon and Gansa then began a two year deal with Witt-Thomas Productions during which they produced several pilots. "Country Estates", a pilot produced for ABC caught the attention of Chris Carter who invited them to join "The X-Files" as Supervising Producers. Gansa departed from the series to pursue independent projects.

Darin wrote the second season episode entitled "Humbug," and performed on the episode "The Host" as the evil flukeworm-man.

Spotnitz joined "The X-Files" after a career working as a newspaper and magazine writer. He wrote for three years for United Press International in New York, first as a News Reporter and later as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Paris.

Later, he joined Entertainment Weekly, where he remained for three years. His writing has also been featured in Rolling Stone and American Film.

Spotnitz graduated from the American Film Institue in 1991 with a master's degree in screenwriting. His film credits include the documentary "John Fante: A Life" which he wrote and directed.

Before coming to THE X-FILES, Vlaming worked as a staff writer on the award winning NORTHERN EXPOSURE as well as USA network's WEIRD SCIENCE. In addition, he also wrote episodes of "DUE SOUTH", "THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR." and MTV's "CATWALK."

Vlaming grew up in Minneapolis where he began his career working as an advertising art director.

Newton graduated in 1988 from Southwest Texas State University with a B.A. in Journalism. She remained in Texas to pursue a career in advertising, working as a copywriter in Dallas.

In 1991, Newton relocated to Los Angeles to begin screenwriting where she worked as a Production Assistant on "PICKET FENCES" and did story research for both "Picket Fences" and "Chicago Hope." Her first script was produced by "CHICAGO HOPE" this past season.

John Shiban received a B.A. in English Literature from UCLA and a M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. While at AFI, Shiban was awarded the Mary Pickford Scholarship for his writing and was the Institute's candidate for the Paramount fellowship his senior year.

Prior to joining THE X-FILES, Shiban worked as a Software Engineer for the Unisys Corporation.

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