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
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Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...
'' television series. Previously he worked as a writer and supervising producer on ''
The X-Files
''The X-Files'' is an American science fiction on television, science fiction drama (film and television), drama television series created by Chris Carter (screenwriter), Chris Carter. The original series aired from September 10, 1993, to Ma ...
'' in its first two seasons, and on ''
Dawson's Creek
''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college. It aired from January 20, 19 ...
'' in its third season. After that he was involved with the short-lived series ''
Wolf Lake'', a series focusing on a group of
werewolves
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in Northwest America, as an executive producer and a writer. Gansa was also involved in the TV series ''
Numb3rs'' and HBO's ''
Entourage''.
More recently he joined the writing crew of ''
24'' for its
seventh season. Gansa is also one of the co-creators and showrunner of ''
Homeland'', a 2011 series for Showtime.
In 2012, he was nominated and won a
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for writing the "
Pilot
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" of ''
Homeland'', also winning an Emmy for
Best Drama Series.
http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Drama%20Series
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Living people
American male screenwriters
American television producers
American soap opera writers
Homeland (TV series)
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
American showrunners
American male television writers
Groton School alumni
Writers Guild of America Award winners
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