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Alex Gansa

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Alex Gansa
Gansa at the 2015 PaleyFest
NationalityAmerican
Notable workHomeland

Alex Gansais a screenwriter and producer. He co-developed the Showtime seriesHomelandwithHoward GordonandGideon Raff.He was also one of the series' executive producers and showrunners.

Gansa produced and wrote a number of scripts for theBeauty and the Beasttelevision series. Previously he worked as a writer and supervising producer onThe X-Filesin its first two seasons, and onDawson's Creekin its third season. After that he was involved with the short-lived seriesWolf Lake,a series focusing on a group ofwerewolvesin North West America, as an executive producer and a writer. Gansa was also involved in the TV seriesNumb3rsand HBO'sEntourage.

More recently[when?]he joined the writing crew of24for itsseventh season.[1]Gansa is also one of the co-creators and showrunner ofHomeland,a 2011 series for Showtime.[2]

In 2012, he was nominated and won aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Seriesfor writing the "Pilot"ofHomeland,also winning an Emmy forBest Drama Series.[3]

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  1. ^"Fall Network TV Preview: ABC, CBS, FOX".backstage.2007-09-10. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-10-12.
  2. ^Siegel, Tatiana (September 17, 2011)."Gordon, Gansa turn to 'Homeland'".Variety.Archived fromthe originalon 9 November 2012.Retrieved18 September2011.
  3. ^http:// emmys /nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Drama%20Series
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