Trivia

Favorite movie is Halloween (1978). He's said that the movie is the reason he started writing.

In college, he wrote a 45-minute one-act play about a teenage girl being terrorized by a killer over the phone. This would later become the opening scene of Scream (1996).

Kevin based the villainous character in Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) on a teacher who screamed at him in front of the class and told him something he wrote was lousy and that he shouldn't be writing.

One of the few screenwriters to get credited on film posters.

Since 1999, he is no longer executive producer and writer of Dawson's Creek (1998).

He met Julie Plec when she was Wes Craven's assistant during the production of Scream (1996). The two would become close friends and went on to work together on several projects.

He originally wanted to be an actor, then found success as a screenwriter.

He originally wanted to direct Scream (1996), but Bob Weinstein made him take a "director's test" to prove he could do it. He filmed the bathroom scene with the killer wearing Michael Myers' mask and cast Selma Blair, Rose McGowan, and Devon Odessa. Wes Craven was later chosen as director. Rose McGowan went on to be cast as Tatum in Scream (1996), Selma Blair would have a voiceover role in Scream 2 (1997), and Williamson became involved in the production of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).

As a teenager, he and his friends made a short horror film about a slicker-clad fisherman who killed his victims with a hook. Aspects of this would later influence his work on I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Dawson's Creek (1998).

Before finding success as a screenwriter, he was an assistant for director Paris Barclay.

Grew up in the New Bern, NC area. There is an actual Dawsons Creek in Oriental, NC where Williamson grew up.