---
name: "Monica Macer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/monica-macer"
fi1m_id: "monica-macer"
imdb_id: "nm1285774"
tmdb_id: 134175
wikidata_id: "Q6900001"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 March 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T18:05:43.494878+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Monica Macer

## Identity

Monica Macer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/monica-macer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** monica-macer
- **IMDb ID:** nm1285774
- **TMDB ID:** 134175
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6900001
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Macer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6900001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1285774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134175

Writer. Born 9 March 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 March 1971
- **Active:** 2004–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Nelson McCormick](https://film.one/person/nelson-mccormick.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (2), 2020s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Macer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6900001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1285774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134175

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Prison Break*](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Monica Macer is an American television writer and producer. A Vassar College graduate, she began her career in New York theatre as a playwright and director before moving into film and television development. She worked as an assistant at Nickelodeon Movies and as a creative executive at the Walt Disney Company, later joining the Fox Writers Program.

Macer served as a writers' assistant on *24* and as a staff writer on the first season of *Lost* (2004), for which the writing team received a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series. She became a story editor and writer on *Prison Break* (2005), contributing to episodes across its first two seasons. Subsequent credits include executive story editor on the *Knight Rider* remake (2008) and writing or producing roles on *Teen Wolf* (2011), *Nashville* (2012) and *Queen Sugar* (2016).

She has served as showrunner and executive producer on *Gentefied* (2020) and *MacGyver* (2016). Macer is married to actor and filmmaker Sterling Macer Jr.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, garydavidstratton.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Prison Break* (2005), Fi1m 68, Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md)
- *Lost* (2004), Fi1m 81, Staff Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/lost.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Station Eleven* (2021), Fi1m 84, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/station-eleven.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Station Eleven* (2021), series, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/station-eleven.md)
- *Arcane* (2021), series, Consulting Producer
- *Gentefied* (2020), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Breaks* (2017), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Queen Sugar* (2016), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Deception* (2013), series, Writer, Producer
- *Nashville* (2012), series, Writer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Playboy Club* (2011), series, Co-Producer
- *Teen Wolf* (2011), series, Writer, Co-Producer
- *The Jensen Project* (2010), Teleplay
- *Knight Rider* (2008), series, Executive Story Editor
- *Prison Break* (2005), series, Writer, Story Editor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md)
- *Lost* (2004), series, Staff Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/lost.md)
- *24* (2001), series, Producer's Assistant — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/24.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/monica-macer