Dan Harmon
American screenwriter
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| 2024 | Yvette Nicole Brown confirmed in an interview that the Community movie's script is ready and the movie is in development. |
| 2023 | Began co-creating and executive producing Strange Planet |
| 2023 | Created Krapopolis, a Fox animated sitcom, continuing his work in animated television comedy. |
| January 2023 | Harmon became the sole showrunner of Rick and Morty after Justin Roiland was dismissed from the series due to domestic assault charges. |
| 2022 | Served as executive producer for Little Demon |
| May 17 2021 | Dan Harmon's animated series was officially titled Krapopolis, marking the first fully-owned new series for Fox. |
| 2020 | Harmon left Starburns Industries, marking the end of his decade-long involvement with the company he co-founded. |
| 2020 | Harmon won the Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Animated Program' again as the executive producer of Rick and Morty. |
| June 2020 | Fox greenlit an animated comedy series created by Dan Harmon, set in Ancient Greece, as a co-production between Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment. |
| May 2020 | The fourth season of Rick and Morty concluded. |
| December 5 2019 | Harmontown published its final podcast episode. |
| September 10 2019 | Harmontown podcast announced it would be ending its run. |
| February 2019 | On an episode of Harmontown, Harmon revealed he had deleted his Twitter account prior to the baby doll video controversy, citing his support for James Gunn after Disney's firing of the director for old tweets. |
| January 2019 | Cody Heller proposed to Dan Harmon, and they became engaged. |
| 2018 | Dan Harmon plays the character Cartwright in the film 'Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss'. |
| 2018 | Harmon won the Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Animated Program' as the executive producer of Rick and Morty. |
| July 2018 | A controversial comedy skit from 2009 titled 'Daryl' resurfaced, featuring Harmon acting out a deeply offensive parody involving a baby doll. Following significant criticism, Harmon publicly apologized and acknowledged the video's extreme poor taste. |
| May 2018 | Rick and Morty was renewed for an additional 70 episodes after Harmon and Roiland reached an agreement with Adult Swim. |
| January 2 2018 | Dan Harmon publicly acknowledged sexual misconduct towards his former Community writer Megan Ganz. He made a detailed apology on his podcast Harmontown, admitting to making inappropriate advances and mistreating her after she rejected him. |
| 2017 | Wrote for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return |
| 2017 | Dan Harmon appeared as himself and directed an episode of Guest Grumps titled 'The Cat in the Hat with Special Guest Dan Harmon' |
| July 2017 | Dan Harmon and Evan Katz announced they would adapt Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan into a television series through The A.V. Club. |
| 2016 | Harmon began dating TV writer Cody Heller. |
| 2016 | Began creating, writing, and executive producing HarmonQuest, appearing as himself and multiple character voices |
| 2016 | Dan Harmon serves as an uncredited consultant for the Marvel film 'Doctor Strange'. |
| 2016 | Created, wrote, and executive produced 'Great Minds with Dan Harmon' where he appeared as himself |
| 2015 | Wrote a couch gag for The Simpsons episode 'Mathlete's Feat' |
| 2015 | Dan Harmon has an uncredited role in the film 'Knight of Cups' and appears in the documentary 'Back in Time'. |
| October 2015 | Harmon and Erin McGathy announced their divorce in October. |
| November 2014 | Harmon married Erin McGathy in November. |
| June 30 2014 | Harmon announced that Yahoo! had renewed Community for a 13-episode sixth season to air online on Yahoo! Screen. |
| May 2014 | NBC cancelled Community after its fifth season. |
| March 8 2014 | The Harmontown documentary, directed by Neil Berkeley, premiered at the Austin Film Festival SXSW. |
| 2013 | Harmon published his book 'You'll Be Perfect When You're Dead'. |
| 2013 | Harmon and Davis took the Harmontown podcast on tour, which became the subject of a documentary. |
| December 2013 | Harmon proposed to his girlfriend Erin McGathy in December. |
| December 2 2013 | Rick and Morty premiered on Adult Swim, featuring the adventures of a brilliant inventor and his grandson, created by Harmon and Roiland. |
| June 10 2013 | Sony Pictures officially confirmed Harmon's return to Community as co-showrunner with Chris McKenna. |
| June 1 2013 | Harmon announced his return to Community as co-showrunner. |
| 2012 | Launched the comedy podcast Harmontown, expanding his creative endeavors into podcasting. |
| 2012 | Dan Harmon voiced Dr. Jekyl in 5 episodes of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole |
| 2012 | Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland began developing ideas for an animated show during Harmon's yearlong break from Community, with Adult Swim ordering a 30-minute animated pilot of Rick and Morty. |
| May 18 2012 | Harmon was terminated from his position as showrunner of Community due to creative conflicts with Sony executives. |
| 2011 | Dan Harmon discovered potential Asperger syndrome traits while writing the character Abed for Community, later consulting a doctor and confirming he is on the autism spectrum. |
| May 23 2011 | Dan Harmon began hosting the monthly live comedy show and podcast Harmontown at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood, co-hosted by Jeff B. Davis. |
| 2010 | Dan Harmon co-founded Starburns Industries with Dino Stamatopoulos during the first season of Community, establishing an animation production company. |
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