Jose Molina (writer)

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Jose Molina
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Jose Molina at the 2017 WonderCon
Born1971
San Juan, Puerto Rico
OccupationScreenwriter, producer, podcaster
Genre Science fiction, Mystery

Jose Molina, born in 1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television producer and screenwriter. He wrote the episodes "Trash" and "Ariel" for the American TV show Firefly , and multiple episodes for Dark Angel . [1]

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Education

Molina attended Yale University (Pierson College, class of 1993), where he successfully applied for a student internship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by submitting a spec script for Star Trek: The Next Generation . [2]

Career

Following Firefly, Molina worked on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , [2] earning the 2006 American Latino Media Arts Award for "Outstanding Script for a Television Drama or Comedy" for the episode "Alien". [3] The Official Firefly Visual Companion #3, "Still Flying", released in May 2010, features a short story written by Molina. He wrote the episodes "Famous Last Words" and "Suicide Squeeze" for the television series Castle , on which he served as Co-Executive Producer, a title Molina carried into the first season of the Syfy original series Haven .

Molina followed his stint in genre cable with a return to in-network genre, becoming one of the head writers on the Steven Spielberg-produced series Terra Nova , which aired for 13 episodes in the fall at Fox. After the cancellation of Terra Nova , Molina moved briefly to NBC's rookie fairy-tale drama Grimm before landing on the flagship of The CW Network, The Vampire Diaries . More recent projects include La Brea , Legacies and Blood & Treasure .

Alongside, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, he is also the co-host of the Children of Tendu Podcast, a weekly series offering advice for getting into the television industry. [4]

Filmography

YearTitleCredited asNotes
WriterProducer
1999 Strange World YesWriter (1 episode)
2000–2002 Dark Angel YesWriter (8 episodes); story editor
2002–2003 Firefly YesWriter (2 episodes); executive story editor
2004–2006 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit YesYesWriter (6 episodes); story editor, executive story editor; co-producer, producer
2006–2008 Without a Trace YesYesWriter (5 episodes); supervising producer; co-executive producer
2009–2010 Castle YesYesWriter (2 episodes); co-executive producer
2010 Haven YesYesWriter (2 episodes); co-executive producer
2011 Star Wars: The Clone Wars YesWriter (3 episodes)
2011 Terra Nova YesYesWriter (1 episode); co-executive producer
2012 Grimm YesYesWriter (1 episode); co-executive producer
2012–2013 The Vampire Diaries YesYesWriter (4 episodes); co-executive producer
2013 Sleepy Hollow YesYesWriter (2 episodes); co-executive producer
2015–2016 Agent Carter YesYesWriter (2 episodes); co-executive producer
2017–2018 The Tick YesYesWriter (3 episodes); co-executive producer
2019 Weird City YesYesWriter (1 episode); executive producer/showrunner
2021 La Brea YesYesWriter (1 episode); co-executive producer
2021-2022 Legacies YesYesWriter (2 episodes); co-executive producer
2022 Blood & Treasure YesYesWriter (2 episodes); consulting producer

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