Alex Gansa

{{Short description|American screenwriter and producer}}

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Alex Gansa is a screenwriter and producer. He co-developed the Showtime series Homeland with Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff. He was also one of the series' executive producers and showrunners.

Gansa produced and wrote a number of scripts for the Beauty and the Beast television series. Previously he worked as a writer and supervising producer on The X-Files in its first two seasons, and on Dawson's Creek in its third season. After that he was involved with the short-lived series Wolf Lake, a series focusing on a group of werewolves in Northwest America, as an executive producer and a writer. Gansa was also involved in the TV series Numb3rs and HBO's Entourage.

More recently{{when|date=April 2017}} he joined the writing crew of 24 for its seventh season.{{cite web|title=Fall Network TV Preview: ABC, CBS, FOX|url=http://www.backstage.com/bso/rossreports/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003637646|date=2007-09-10|website=backstage.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012162844/http://www.backstage.com/bso/rossreports/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003637646|archive-date=2007-10-12}} Gansa is also one of the co-creators and showrunner of Homeland, a 2011 series for Showtime.{{cite news|last=Siegel|first=Tatiana|date=September 17, 2011|title=Gordon, Gansa turn to 'Homeland'|newspaper=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2011/tv/news/gordon-gansa-turn-to-homeland-1118042934/|url-status=live|access-date=18 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109044828/https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118042934?refCatId=14|archive-date=9 November 2012}}

In 2012, he was nominated and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for writing the "Pilot" of Homeland, also winning an Emmy for Best Drama Series.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120721193911/http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Drama%20Series http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Drama%20Series]