Matthew B. Roberts

Showrunner, Executive Producer, Writer, Outlander | Beyond the Books with Outlander's Matt Roberts

After leaving college, Matthew B. Roberts pursued a career as an EMT in Los Angeles. Roberts started a company with his brother, a Los Angeles County firefighter, providing emergency medical assistance and safety teams to the film and television business, which ultimately led to his first job in the entertainment industry.

Roberts began his television career in various production offices, eventually getting hired as an assistant to award-winning television Writer/Producer Carol Flint. Serving under the watchful eye of his mentor, Flint, Roberts landed a position as a Researcher for NBC’s long-running procedural drama Law & Order. His tenure at Law & Order led to a television pilot sale with Wolf Films to NBC. Roberts moved on to a writing position for SyFy Network’s Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, working for esteemed Executive Producer/Writer Ronald D. Moore.

After Caprica ended, Roberts moved on to Hellcats, for Warner Brothers Television, before re-teaming with Ronald D. Moore’s Tall Ship Productions on the western-themed pilot Hangtown for ABC, as well as developing several other projects.  

Adding to his list of accomplishments, Roberts has written or co-written eleven episodes of Outlander, directed the finale of Season 3, “Eye of the Storm,” was co-showrunner on both Seasons 3 and 4, and now, in his fifth season, continues to helm the show, as showrunner.