James Manos Jr. is an American film and television writer and producer.

Career

Manos worked as a co-producer and writer on the first season of ''The Sopranos''. In 1999, Manos won the

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for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his work on the episode "

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" of ''The Sopranos''. The award was shared with his co-writer, ''The Sopranos'' creator David Chase. He then completed two seasons as consulting producer on ''The Shield''. He developed, produced, and wrote the pilot of '' Dexter'', the Showtime drama series which lasted 8 seasons. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best dramatic series for his work on the first season of ''Dexter''. Manos recently was the Executive Producer for 7 episodes of ''

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'' for Direct TV and E-One Entertainment and executive produced the 8-episode order of '' South of Hell'' for Sonar Entertainment and WeTv. He wrote and sold the half-hour series " Staying Brown" about two Puerto Rican ladies from the barrio on the lamb in Europe to Amazon as well as the one-hour comedy "The Slow and Complete Decompensation of Jim Manos" to TNT. He wrote "Chess" for the writer/producers David McFadzean and Matt Williams and "Brand" a series about the world of counterfeiting high end merchandise. He wrote an independent feature film "I Am Lupe," about La Lupe, an incredible Afro-Cuban entertainer. Lauren Velez will star under direction by Manos himself. Arturo Sandoval is slated to score the film. Manos also wrote "The Ladies" for HBO's producer, Joe Pichirallo and a one-hour series "Crossroads" for Graham King. He produced the award-winning movie '' The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom'', starring Holly Hunter and Beau Bridges, for

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. The movie was nominated for six

s and won three. Additionally, it won the CableACE Award for Best Picture of the year. He also produced the critically acclaimed ''

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'' and ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters''. A trained theater director, James received a degree from

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, New York in English/Theater and studied as a director at The

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s in London, England. James also studied acting and later taught acting classes in New York. He has directed numerous plays regionally and in New York, including Inge's ''The Disposal'', Mrozek's ''Vatzlav'', Ionesco's ''The Lesson'', Molière's ''The Doctor in Spite of Himself'', and Arthur Miller's '' Some Kind of Love Story''. He also just completed a one-man Off-Broadway show "In the Pocket" which tells the life of Mark Rivera, a virtuoso musician who has always been a "sideman" but now he wants to stand in the limelight. He also wrote the black comedy, ''The Misconception'' which is being developed with the Cherry Lane Theatre in

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for an Off-Broadway run. Manos is also a novelist having written "Little Ellie Claus" published by Simon Schuster and "Marked", a cop franchise as a graphic novel for Graphic India, the Sharad Devarajan, and Gotham Chopra imprint. He is represented by Michael Van Dyke at Inspired Entertainment and Alan Grodin at Weintraub, Tobin, Chediak, Coleman, and Grodin.

Personal life

Manos is a Greek Orthodox Christian.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Manos, James Jr. Television producers from New York (state) American male television writers American television writers Primetime Emmy Award winners Colgate University alumni Living people American showrunners Year of birth missing (living people) Screenwriters from New York (state) Greek Orthodox Christians from the United States