Alex Gansa

Alex Gansa is an American producer and screenwriter. He was supervising producer for the first two seasons of The X-Files

Activity

Gansa began as a screenwriter for the TV series Spenser, for which Howard Gordon wrote screenplays, with whom he often worked in the following years.

Later he worked as executive producer and writer on the short-lived series Wolf Lake, which focuses on a group of werewolves in the northwestern United States. Gansa was, inter alia, also involved in the television series Numb3rs and Entourage and was a screenwriter and executive producer of the short-lived resembling, Twin Peaks series Maximum Bob. He was also executive producer of the series Dawson 's Creek in the third season. Since the seventh season, he was involved as a co - executive producer on 24.

Awards

For his work on the series Beauty and the Beast 1989 he was nominated for an Emmy and for his work on Entourage for the WGA Award. 2012, produced by him and Howard Gordon series was awarded the Emmy.

Work together

Alex Gansa worked together for many years as a screenwriter with Howard Gordon. So the scripts from six episodes of the first X-Files Season are written together and also a consequence of the second season was filmed by one (based on a story by Howard Gordon -based ) writer of the two authors.

In 1987 both wrote to the TV series Beauty and the Beast. Here they wrote 18 screenplays together. The last episode again based on a story by Gordon / Gansa and was designed by PK Simonds fashioned the screenplay. In this series, both also worked together with George RR Martin. So some screenplays created by common stories by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon and George RR Martin. These were implemented in part by George RR Martin, part of Team Gordon / Gansa to screenplays.

After a few years separate ways Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa working on 24 together again, for the Gordon had already written a number of screenplays. 2010 was involved in the development of Homeland Alex Gansa by Howard Gordon, for which she wrote several common scenarios and they cherished as executive producers.

Swell

Alan Morton, The Complete Directory to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Television Series, ISBN 0-9657358 -0-X