Alex Gansa | |
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 Gansa at the 2015 PaleyFest | |
| Nationality | American |
| 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 Northwest 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]
