Valentina L. Garza is an American screenwriter and television producer, known for her work on both animated and live-action television series. She has written for The Simpsons , Jane the Virgin , Only Murders in the Building , XO, Kitty , and Wednesday .
Garza began her television career as a writers' assistant on Los Beltrán , a Spanish-language sitcom that aired on Telemundo and where she wrote her first episode of television. She then joined the Warner Bros. Television Group writer’s workshop and submitted a speculative script that earned her a writing position on The Simpsons. [1] During her six-year tenure on the show, she wrote the episodes Loan-a Lisa , Opposites A-Frack and Four Great Women and a Manicure , the latter earning her an Annie Awards nomination. [2] “Opposites A-Frack” won the 2015 Environmental Media Award for Television Episodic Comedy as it addressed environmental issues surrounding fracking. She later joined the writing staff of the animated series Bordertown and became a key contributor to Jane the Virgin on The CW. In 2018, her episode “Chapter Seventy-Eight” was honored along with “Chapter Eighty” with the Sentinel Award for their exemplary depiction of breast cancer in a comedic series. [3] In 2019, Garza pitched and produced the pilot for a spin-off of Jane the Virgin, but the network ultimately declined to move forward with the project. [4]
Garza worked as a consulting producer on Hulu’s comedy Only Murders in the Building and signed with WME in 2021 to develop original television content. [5] [6] She currently serves as executive producer and showrunner of the Netflix teen romance series X.O. Kitty which she joined after completing Season 2 of Wednesday as writer and co-executive producer. [7]