Biography
Alex Gansa is an American screenwriter and television producer. He began his career writing for the CBS series Beauty and the Beast (1987) and later served as a writer and supervising producer on the first two seasons of The X-Files (1993), often collaborating with Howard Gordon.
Gansa contributed to Dawson's Creek (1998) and joined the writing staff of 24 (2001) for its seventh season. He co-developed the Showtime series Homeland (2011) with Gordon and Gideon Raff, serving as executive producer and showrunner. His production company is Cherry Pie Productions.
For the Homeland pilot, Gansa shared a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series; the series also won for Outstanding Drama Series.
