Biography: Timothy Michael Federle (born March 24, 1980) is an American author, theatre librettist, director and screenwriter whose best-known works include the novel Better Nate Than Ever, the cocktail recipe book Tequila Mockingbird, the Golden Globe Award and Academy Awards nominee (for Best Animated Feature) Ferdinand, and Disney's High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Federle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.