Jason Cahill is an American

television writer A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. T ...

and producer, who is best known for his work on the acclaimed HBO series ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster, portraying his difficulties as he tries to balance ...

'' and on the

FOX Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

series ''

Fringe Fringe may refer to: Arts * Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, known as "the Fringe" * Adelaide Fringe, the world's second-largest annual arts festival * Fringe theatre, a name for alternative theatre * The Fringe, the ...

''.

Career

Jason Cahill began his writing career on the short-lived CTV series ''

Two 2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultur ...

'' in 1996 and then moved to

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...

where he contributed scripts for ER and '' Profiler'', where he also worked as an executive story editor. He has also worked on series such as '' NYPD Blue'' and ''

Surface A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space. It is the portion or region of the object that can first be perceived by an observer using the senses of sight and touch, and is ...

''.

Work on ''The Sopranos''

Cahill served as executive story editor on 5 episodes of the first season of ''

''. He wrote 3 episodes of the show: * " Meadowlands" (1.04) * " Boca" (1.09) (with

Robin Green Robin Green is an American writer and producer. She was an executive producer on the HBO series ''The Sopranos''. She was a creator and executive producer for '' Blue Bloods''. Biography A Rhode Island native, Robin Green earned a Bachelor of ...

Mitchell Burgess Mitchell Burgess is an American writer and producer. He was the writer and an executive producer on ''The Sopranos''. He was a creator and executive producer for '' Blue Bloods''. He frequently works with his wife Robin Green. Career ''The Sop ...

) * " Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office..." (2.01)

Work on ''Fringe''

* " Power Hungry" (1.05) (with co-written by co-executive producer

Julia Cho Julia Cho (born July 5, 1975) is an American playwright and television writer. In March 2020 she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Select full length plays ''99 Histories'' (2002) ''99 Histories'' is a drama portraying th ...

) * " Safe" (1.10) (co-written by co-executive producer

David H. Goodman David H. Goodman is an American television writer and television producer, producer. He is known for his work on the CBS Drama (genre), drama ''Without a Trace'' and the Fox Broadcasting Network, FOX science fiction series ''Fringe (TV series), ...

)

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cahill, Jason Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century male writers 21st-century American male writers American television writers American male screenwriters American male television writers 21st-century American screenwriters Writers Guild of America Award winners