Glen Mazzara

Glen Mazzara
Glen Mazzara at Banff World Media Festival 2012
Born	(1967-07-06) July 6, 1967 New York, New York, USA
Nationality	American
Occupation	Television Writer Television producer
Years active	1998–present

Glen Mazzara (born July 6, 1967) is an American television producer and writer.

Life and career

An Italian-American, Mazzara was born in Manhattan and grew up in Queens, New York. He graduated from St. Francis Prep 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]}

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]}

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.^[1] He left after one season, but was credited as a consulting producer for the second season premiere.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, he joined the medical drama series Hawthorne for two seasons as executive producer and writer. In 2010, he wrote his first of several episodes of the AMC series The Walking Dead, episode 1.5: "Wildfire.^[2]

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.^[3] Mazzara left this role following season 3.^[4]

In late December 2012, headlines such as the following from the San Jose Mercury News (21 December 2012) announced: "'The Walking Dead': Showrunner Glen Mazzara departs after 'difference of opinion'". Statements by AMC - which described the parting as "amicable" - indicate, "Both parties acknowledge that there is a difference of opinion about where the show should go moving forward, and conclude that it is best to part ways." Mazzara continued as the series showrunner and executive producer for the remainder of Season 3.^[5][6]

Filmography

Producer

Writer

References

External links

• Glen Mazzara at the Internet Movie Database
• Master Class with Glen Mazzara at 2012 Banff World Media Festival
• Q&A with Glen Mazzara at 2012 Banff World Media Festival

References