Nick Santora

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Nick Santora
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Santora at the 2014 Comic-Con International
Occupation(s)Writer, producer

Nick Santora (born 1970) is a writer and producer born in Queens, New York. He won the Best Screenplay of the Competition in the New York City Independent International Film Festival. He has also written for and/or produced The Sopranos , [1] The Guardian , Law & Order , Prison Break , Lie to Me , and Scorpion and he created and executive produced Beauty and the Geek . Santora also co-wrote/created/executive produced the television series Breakout Kings . He served as executive producer and developer of Scorpion from 2014 to 2018 over four seasons. [2] [3]

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Career

Santora graduated from Columbia Law School and practiced law for six years before giving up a full-time practice to write and produce television.

Santora also wrote and produced The Longshots , a film starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer, and was a credited writer on the Lionsgate/Marvel Studios film Punisher: War Zone .

Other work

Santora's first novel, Slip & Fall, was selected by Borders Books Stores to be the debut novel for their newly created publishing division. It was a National Best Seller. [4] His second novel, Fifteen Digits, was published in 2012 by Little Brown's suspense/thriller imprint, Mulholland Books.

Filmography

Film

TV

YearTitleCredited as
WriterProducer
2002 The Sopranos YesNo
2002–04 The Guardian YesYes
2004–05 Law & Order YesYes
2005–09 Prison Break YesYes
2005–09 Beauty and the Geek NoYes
2009–10 Lie to Me YesYes
2011–12 Breakout Kings YesYes
2012–13 Vegas YesYes
2013 Hostages YesNo
2014–18 Scorpion YesYes
2019 FBI YesNo
2020–2023 Most Dangerous Game YesYes
2020 The Fugitive YesYes
2022–present Reacher YesYes
2023–2025 FUBAR YesYes

References

  1. "An Interview with Nick Santora, writer of an episode of the Sopranos and the television show "Prison Break"".
  2. "'Scorpion' Creator Nick Santora on His Journey to the New CBS Drama and Beyond". Forbes .
  3. "DDFP: 'Scorpion' showrunner Nick Santora - NFL.com". NFL.com . Archived from the original on October 20, 2018.
  4. "Nick Santora".