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?] he joined the writing crew of 24 for its seventh season.[1] Gansa is also one of the co-creators and showrunner of Homeland, a 2011 series for Showtime.[2]
