Derek Iversen

If you were looking for the article about the creative director and writer, then see Derek Drymon.

If you were looking for the article about the prop designer and clean-up artist, then see Derek L'estrange.

Person

Credits

Derek Robert Iversen (born May 19, 1971; age 54) is a SpongeBob SquarePants crew member who has worked on the show since the premiere of "Bubblestand" as a production assistant, but did not start writing episodes until season 6.

List of live-action cameos

• "Night Light" - The face in the freezer.

Biography

Iversen was born on May 19, 1971 in Phoenix, Arizona. He started his career in television working on The Angry Beavers as a production assistant. As of "Safe Deposit Krabs," Derek Iversen has written 45 episodes of SpongeBob. After working on SpongeBob SquarePants, he started working on Sanjay and Craig, Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, and Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer.

Trivia

Errors

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Should be written as Derek Iversen

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• In the closing credits for "Friend or Foe," "Rise and Shine," "Waiting," and "Fungus Among Us," his name was misspelled as Derek Iverson with an "o" instead of an "e."
• In the opening credits of "Porous Pockets" and "Shuffleboarding," Derek Iversen was spelled as Derek iversen with a lowercase i.