Fox embraces alum's "Fringe" for a full season

Alumna and professor Felicia D. Henderson‘s current TV project as a writer and creative producer, J.J. Abrams’s sci-fi conspiracy thriller “Fringe,” has become one of the new season’s first major hits, and one of the first to be picked up for a full 22-episode order by its network, Fox.

Henderson, whose undergraduate major at UCLA, and first career path, was in Psycho-Biology, says “writing for ‘Fringe’ represents all the disparate parts of my life coming together — from my undergraduate science classes to my research assistant days, from writing sitcoms to writing relationship dramas. This is the first writing/producing gig I’ve ever had that requires me to use both sides of my brain and synthesize all of what I’ve studied, learned, and am passionate about.”

A hard-working television professional with several hit series on her resume, Henderson finds time to fill additional roles at UCLA, as a lecturer in the Producers Program and as a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies.

She moved from working as a lab assistant at school into “conventional business” after graduation, then earned an MBA at the University of Georgia. Working her first job at job at NBC she fell in love with the craft of writing. Henderson has worked steadily ever since on such programs as “Family Matters,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Moesha,” before being hired to create Showtime’s “Soul Food: The Series.” Most recently, she was an executive producer on The CW’s Gossip Girl.

“Fringe”, centers upon a disgraced (and possibly insane) research scientist (John Noble), his son (Joshua Jackson) and an FBI agent (Anna Torv) who investigate unexplained occurrences, all involving elements of startlingly advanced or “fringe” science, possibly sponsored by a sinister corporation. The show has been described as a cross between “The X-Files,” “Altered States” and “The Twilight Zone.”

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