James Manos Jr.

James Manos, Jr. won the Emmy Award along with David Chase for writing his "College" episode of HBO's groundbreaking series, The Sopranos. After two seasons as Consulting Producer on the FX Golden Globe winning series, The Shield, he went on to create and produce Showtime's 8 year hit, Dexter, which also earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and wins. Presently he has five pilots all optioned and in various stages of development. Manos produced the award-winning movie The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, starring Holly Hunter and Beau Bridges, for HBO. The movie was nominated for six Emmys and won three. He also produced the critically acclaimed Telefilms, Apollo 11 and The Ditchdigger's Daughters. He is represented by Alan Grodin at Weintraub, Tobin, Chediak, Coleman and Grodin.