William Donald "Don" Payne (May 5, 1964 – March 26, 2013) was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of "The Simpsons" after 2000, many of these with John Frink. He met Frink at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also wrote the movies "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (2006), "" (2007), "Thor" (2011) and "" (2013). He was born in Wilmington, North Carolina.