Glen Mazzara
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{{short description|American television producer and writer (born 1967)}}
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| name = Glen Mazzara
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|7|6}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Television writer, producer
| years_active = 1998–present
| notable_works = The Shield
The Walking Dead
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Glen Mazzara (born July 6, 1967) is an American television producer and writer. He is most well known for his work on The Shield, The Walking Dead and Damien.
Life and career
An Italian-American, Mazzara was born in Manhattan, New York City, and grew up in Queens. He graduated from St. Francis Preparatory School in 1985. He attended NYU and earned a masters in English. He worked as a hospital administrator in New York before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a writer in 1998.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}
He was a story editor and writer for the fourth and fifth seasons of Nash Bridges. In 2002, he joined the drama series The Shield as an executive story editor and writer for its first season; was promoted to producer for the second season while continuing to write, to supervising producer for the third season, to co-executive producer for the fourth season and to executive producer for the fifth season; and left midway through the sixth season in 2006. Later in 2006 he was an executive producer on the short-lived series Standoff, and then a co-executive producer on the first season of NBC drama Life.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}
Mazzara left Life to create and executive produce a new series Crash, based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, on which he served as head writer and showrunner.{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992969.html?categoryid=2522&cs=1|title=Starz brakes for Crash'|access-date=October 12, 2008
|publisher=Variety|author=John Dempsey | date=September 26, 2008}} He left after one season, but was credited as a consulting producer for the second season premiere.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}
In 2009, he joined the medical drama series Hawthorne for two seasons as executive producer and writer. In 2010, he wrote the teleplay for an episode of the AMC series The Walking Dead, "Wildfire".{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1185659/filmoseries#tt1520211|journal=IMDb|title= Filmography by TV series for Glen Mazzara|access-date=December 22, 2012}} On July 27, 2011, it was reported that Mazzara had taken over as showrunner of The Walking Dead after Frank Darabont dropped out of the position.{{cite magazine|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/27/glenn-mazzara/|title=Glen Mazzara named new showrunner for 'The Walking Dead'|access-date=July 29, 2010|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|author=James Hibberd|date=July 27, 2010}} Mazzara left this role following season 3.{{cite news |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=98311/|title=The Walking Dead Officially Renewed for Fourth Season|access-date=December 21, 2012|work=Comingsoon.net|author=comingsoon.net|date=December 21, 2012}} After The Walking Dead, he signed an overall deal with Fox Television Studios in 2013.{{Cite web|last=Marechal|first=A. J.|date=March 14, 2013|title=Glen Mazzara Back at Fox TV Studios with Overall Deal|url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/glen-mazzara-returns-to-fox-tv-studios-with-overall-deal-1200194525/|access-date=March 2, 2021|website=Variety|language=en-US}}
Glen Mazzara is the Creator, Executive Producer, and Showrunner of A&E's series, Damien, based on the classic horror film, The Omen.
On April 15, 2019, Mazzara joined several other writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging.{{cite web |title=Damon Lindelof, Hart Hanson Among Top Showrunners Posting Termination Letters In Wake Of Failed WGA-ATA Negotiations |date=April 13, 2019 |url=https://deadline.com/2019/04/wga-ata-termination-damon-lindelof-hart-hanson-steven-deknight-alexi-hawley-tim-doyle-chrissy-pietrosh-1202595448/ |publisher=Deadline}}
Filmography
= Producer =
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! Year !! Show !! Role |
| 2002–2006
| Executive story editor {{small|(2002)}} |
| 2006
| Standoff | Executive producer |
| 2007
| Life | Co-executive producer |
| 2008–2009
| Crash | Creator |
| 2009–2010
| Executive producer |
| 2011
| Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | Consulting producer |
| 2011–2013
| Executive producer |
| 2016
| Damien | Creator |
| 2022-present
| Consulting Producer |
= Writer =
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! Year !! Show !! Notes |
| 1998–2000
| 6 episodes |
| 2002–2007
| 16 episodes |
| 2006
| Standoff | Episode: "Life Support" |
| 2007
| Life | Episode: "Let Her Go" |
| 2008
| Crash | Episode: "Episode One" |
| 2009
| 3 episodes |
| 2010–2013
| 8 episodes |
| 2011
| Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | 2 episodes |
| 2016
| Damien | 3 episodes |
| 2022-2024
| 3 episodes |
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1185659|name=Glen Mazzara}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzeuAfaWTE Master Class with Glen Mazzara at 2012 Banff World Media Festival]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOJZQJ2EvWo Q&A with Glen Mazzara at 2012 Banff World Media Festival]
{{Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay}}
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Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American television writers
Category:American writers of Italian descent
Category:New York University alumni
Category:Writers from Manhattan
Category:Television producers from Queens, New York
Category:American male television writers
Category:Screenwriters from New York City