Joshua Safran | |
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Alma mater | New York University |
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Notable work | Soundtrack , Quantico , Gossip Girl and Smash |
Joshua Safran is an American television screenwriter and executive producer.
Safran attended the Horace Mann School prior to graduating from NYU Tisch with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in playwriting. [1] He has stated he is Jewish. [2]
Safran was an executive producer and writer on The CW television series Gossip Girl , for which he was the showrunner for the series' fourth and fifth seasons, and was the executive producer and showrunner for the second season of the NBC television series Smash . [3] He shared writing credits with director Shana Feste for the screenplay of the 2014 remake of the 1981 film Endless Love . [4]
Safran was the creator, executive producer and showrunner (seasons one and two) of the ABC thriller drama series Quantico . [5] [6] Recently, he was credited as the creator, executive producer and showrunner for the Netflix musical television series Soundtrack . [7] [8]
He is set to create, executive produce and showrun the 2021 sequel series Gossip Girl for HBO Max. [9] Safran is developing an untitled ghost drama for AMC with Annapurna Television. [10]
Safran is openly gay. [11]
Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
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Writer | Director | Producer | |||
Endless Love | 2014 | Yes | No | No |
The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.
Title | Year | Credited as | Network | Notes | |||
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Creator | Director | Writer | Executive Producer | ||||
Gossip Girl | 2007–12 | No | No | Yes (18) | Yes | The CW | Consulting producer (2007–08: 18 episodes), co-executive producer (2008–10: 21 episodes), executive producer (2010–12: 46 episodes) |
Smash | 2013 | No | No | Yes (3) | Yes | NBC | executive producer and showrunner (Season 2: 15 episodes) |
Quantico | 2015–18 | Yes | No | Yes (7) | Yes | ABC | executive producer and showrunner (Seasons 1–2: 44 episodes), consultant (Season 3: 13 episodes) |
Soundtrack | 2019 | Yes | Yes (1) | Yes (3) | Yes | Netflix | executive producer and showrunner |
Gossip Girl | 2021 | Yes | Yes (3) | Yes | Yes | HBO Max | executive producer and showrunner. |