Alex Gansa
American screenwriter and producer
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| Notable work | Homeland |
Alex Gansa is a screenwriter and producer. He co-developed the Showtime series Homeland with Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff. He was also one of the series' executive producers and showrunners.
Gansa produced and wrote a number of scripts for the Beauty and the Beast television series. Previously he worked as a writer and supervising producer on The X-Files in its first two seasons, and on Dawson's Creek in its third season. After that he was involved with the short-lived series Wolf Lake, a series focusing on a group of werewolves in North West America, as an executive producer and a writer. Gansa was also involved in the TV series Numb3rs and HBO's Entourage.
More recently[when?] he joined the writing crew of 24 for its seventh season.[1] Gansa is also one of the co-creators and showrunner of Homeland, a 2011 series for Showtime.[2]
In 2012, he was nominated and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for writing the "Pilot" of Homeland, also winning an Emmy for Best Drama Series.[3]
References
- ^ "Fall Network TV Preview: ABC, CBS, FOX". backstage.com. 2007-09-10. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (September 17, 2011). "Gordon, Gansa turn to 'Homeland'". Variety. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Drama%20Series
External links
- Alex Gansa at IMDb
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