Joseph Staten

Joseph Staten
Staten at the 2007 Comic-Con International
Education	Northwestern University (BS) University of Chicago (MA)
Occupation(s)	Writer, cinematic director
Employer	Netflix Games

Joseph Staten is an American writer best known for his work at video game studios Bungie, Microsoft Studios, and 343 Industries.

At Bungie, Staten served as director of cinematics for the studio's games, including the Halo series; he would write mission scripts and movie dialogue for the titles. He has also been involved in managing the expansion of the Halo franchise to other game studios and producers, including Peter Jackson's Wingnut Interactive. Though not a published author previously, Tor Books approached Staten to write the fifth novel in the Halo franchise, Halo: Contact Harvest. Released in 2007, the novel reached #3 on The New York Times bestseller list in the first week of its release and received positive reviews. Staten rejoined Microsoft Studios as a senior creative director in 2014, and left the company in 2023. Currently, Staten is working as a creative director at Netflix.^[1]