Biography
Early years
Innate inside New Bern, North Carolina, he is the younger boy of Ottis Wade & Lillie Faye (Pittman) Williamson. He sleep in the neighboring coastal community of Oriental, but before he began school his personal moved to Aransas Pass, Texas, later relocating to Fulton, Texas, both near Corpus Christi. Williamson's personal returned to Oriental prior to Kevin's senior high school years. Obsessed from either the immature age by owning film, especially people of Steven Spielberg, he applied to New York University's film school and was accepted however because he may not afford the tuition, he attended a school nearer to front yard, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he took a B.A. in theatre arts.

Career in television
When graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Though he landed the a portion on the soap opera Another World in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles the next year in which he got little area in In Living Color , a Roger Corman film, Hard Run, and within music online videos. When ingesting classes in screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle which was bought by the production company within 1995 and put on a shelf.

The genesis of Scream
Divine per March 9 1994 episode of the newsmagazine Turning Point on a serial killer within Gainesville, Florida, who murdered college students, Williamson wrote the horror flick script, originally coroneted "Scary Movie". Its characters got seen all the horror motion-picture show (e.g. A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween) and knew all the cliches. Miramax bought it for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995. Directed by Wes Craven, the film, renamed Scream, was a smash sustaining critics, world health organization praised its intelligent & witty script which would win Williamson a Saturn Award. Costing just $15.Three million to produce, it sold $103 million inside tickets in the U.S.

More high school peril
Williamson's next film was too all about high schoolers within peril. I Know What You Did Last Summer, based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, had quaternary friends inadvertently running across a human, panicking, dumping the immune system, & going in by owning their experiences, lof these to become punished one season late. Duncan was appalled at her novel existence sour into the horror film & making sport of slaying. A film's producers, Columbia Pictures, also annoyed Miramax by advertising it when "from the creator of Scream" and so Miramax rushed into production Scream 2, also written by Williamson, & filed the suit against Columbia. Scream Two would likewise exist as the hit & would spawn an additional sequel Scream 3. Williamson wrote an additional therein genre, The Faculty, characterized as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club."

Asked to do a series
Paul Stupin, an executive at Columbia Tri-Star Television, read Scream fallowing the bidding war for the script & was convinced Williamson was just the human to produce a television series for his company. A symptom was ''Dawson's Creek'', a semi-autobigraphical tale set in a small coastal community not unlike Oriental. Williamson was a model for the title character, Dawson Leery, a dreamy romantic obsessed by owning movies--especially Spielberg's. Joey Potter, the girl world health organization platonically shares Dawson's bed was according to the friend of his world health organization got shared his bed. Inside December 1995, a indicate was pitched to the Fox Network, where Stupin got been an executive, however it was rejected. Stupinside & Williamson so went to The WB in 1996, which bought the indicate. Williamson said "I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie".

Leaving ''Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek premiered on The WB January 20 1998, and was an quick hit by having its meant audience. Despite this (& his with told Entertainment Weekly'' that "I ain't never leaving ''Dawson's Creek"), Williamson left the indicate at a prevent of its 2nd year to produce a indicate for Miramax to air on ABC. A effect, Wasteland, about twentysomethings around Up to date York City was savaged by critics. A Hollywood Newsperson said it was all about "the most attractively vacuous, self-indulgent, and pretentious group ever assembled in prime-time." It aired lone 3 episodes around October 1999 prior to ABC cancelled it. (Williamson would link to to Dawson's Creek to write them-ornamentation series finale inside 2003.)

Teaching Mrs. Tingle''
Williamson's 1st script was exclusively produced after Williamson himself trail a camera to directly. Starring ''Dawson's Creek's Katie Holmes, Barry Watson, and Helen Mirren, Teaching Mrs. Tingle (as it was renamed), had two students getting even with their vindictive teacher. Despite a cast, which as well involved Molly Ringwald and Jeffrey Tambor, it was panned by critics and audiences like. Entertainment Weekly said it was rather Misery scripted by a senseless John Hughes imitator" and the film, which cost $14 million to make, sold only $8.8 million in tickets in America.

More horror
Williamson created a mid-season replacement for The WB network called Glory Days, set in a coastal community in Washington State, where very weird things were happening--shades of Twin Peaks, it seemed. It debuted as a mid-season replacement in January 2002; only ten episodes were produced.

Williamson has written another script for Wes Craven, Cursed'', which was released in 2005 and starred Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, and Shannon Elizabeth.