Temple Mathews is an American born screenwriter/producer who attended the University of Washington, graduating in 1976. He produced films at the American Film Institute and went on to begin a screen writing career, writing and producing Off the Mark Mathews has written dozens animated TV shows and wrote the Disney animated feature film release Return to Never Land, released in 2002. He also wrote The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and contributed to other Disney animated titles. He is also the writer of the feature film starring Ashley Tisdale, and the author of the young adult novel, The New Kid published by Benbella Books.