Carter Harris is an American journalist, screenwriter, producer, and director.
Harris began his career as a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and went on to write for various publications, including Esquire , The New York Times , New York Magazine , Details, Spin, Rolling Stone , Elle, Vibe, and The Source, where he won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. [1] Harris was executive editor of Vibe magazine and a Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. [2] He is an adjunct professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Harris moved into screenwriting when Michael Mann hired him to write a movie and then hired him on CBS's Robbery Homicide Division. Harris has since written and produced for numerous TV shows, including Dick Wolf's Law & Order, FX's Lights Out, NBC's Friday Night Lights, Netflix’s Bloodline, HBO’s Ballers, and Apple TV's The New Look. He is currently developing a series for MGM and Jamie Foxx.
Harris was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series for his work on the first season of Bloodline. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series for his work on the first season of Friday Night Lights. [3] He was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series for his work on the second season of Friday Night Lights. [4] He was nominated for the same award the following year for his work on the third season of Friday Night Lights. [5]
Jason Katims is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known as the creator of several television series, including Relativity (1996), Roswell (1999–2002), Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), Parenthood (2010–2015), About a Boy (2014–2015) and Rise (2018).
Eli Attie is an Emmy-winning writer, producer, and former White House staff member. He served as Vice President Al Gore's chief White House and campaign speechwriter through Gore's concession of the 2000 presidential election, which Attie and Gore wrote together. Attie then became a longtime writer and producer on the drama series The West Wing, House, and Billions. He is currently a writer and producer on Netflix's political thriller The Diplomat and on Netflix's upcoming limited series Zero Day, which will star Robert De Niro.
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Brent Fletcher is an American television writer. He has worked on television series such as Lost and Angel.
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Timothy (Tim) Schlattmann is a three-time Emmy award nominee television writer and producer. Nebraska born and raised, this former disc jockey and college professor's writing credits include ABC's number one hit Roseanne, Fox's Get Real, the WB's Smallville, the feature XCU: Extreme Close-Up, and the critically acclaimed Dexter for Showtime. As an Executive Producer since 2012, Tim Schlattmann completed the eighth and final season of Dexter and authored "Dexter Early Cuts: Dark Echo", an ongoing web series for Showtime. He has served as an Executive Producer on CBS's "Under The Dome".
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