Biography
John J. Strauss is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television. He co-wrote the screenplay and story for There's Something About Mary (1998) with Ed Decter.
Strauss has written and produced for television series including Boy Meets World (1993), Me and the Boys and Odd Man Out, which he created. He frequently collaborates with writer and producer Ed Decter. Since the late 1990s he has focused primarily on feature films, with credits including Head Over Heels (2001), The Santa Clause 2 (2002), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Rebound (2005), The Wild (2006), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), You Again (2010) and Free Birds (2013).
He holds a B.F.A. from UCLA and an M.F.A. from the University of Georgia, and teaches at UCLA.
