Jesse Alexander is an American
television writerA teleplay is a play written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a TV script from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films....
and
producerThe primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
. He was most recently a co-executive producer and writer on
HeroesHeroes is an American fantasy television drama series created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives...
. Originally from Santa Barbara, California, Alexander attended
Sarah Lawrence CollegeSarah Lawrence is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, north of Manhattan. Sarah Lawrence was founded in 1926 as a women's college and became a coeducational institution in 1968...
and
AFI ConservatoryThe AFI Conservatory is a division of the American Film Institute founded in 1969, located in Hollywood's Griffith Park. Dubbed by some as "Juilliard for Filmmakers," the school is the only existing Master of Fine Arts conservatory in advanced film education...
. At Sarah Lawrence, he befriended J.J. Abrams, his collaborator on a number of projects.
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Jesse Alexander is an American
television writerA teleplay is a play written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a TV script from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films....
and
producerThe primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
. He was most recently a co-executive producer and writer on
HeroesHeroes is an American fantasy television drama series created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives...
. Originally from Santa Barbara, California, Alexander attended
Sarah Lawrence CollegeSarah Lawrence is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, north of Manhattan. Sarah Lawrence was founded in 1926 as a women's college and became a coeducational institution in 1968...
and
AFI ConservatoryThe AFI Conservatory is a division of the American Film Institute founded in 1969, located in Hollywood's Griffith Park. Dubbed by some as "Juilliard for Filmmakers," the school is the only existing Master of Fine Arts conservatory in advanced film education...
. At Sarah Lawrence, he befriended J.J. Abrams, his collaborator on a number of projects.
Producer
- Heroes
Heroes is an American fantasy television drama series created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives...
(as co-executive producer)
- Alias
Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
(as executive producer)
- Animated Alias: Tribunal
The Animated Alias: Tribunal is an American animated short film produced in 2003 for the DVD release of the third season of the espionage series Alias....
(as executive producer)
- Lost
Lost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles, United States, crashes somewhere in the South Pacific...
(as executive consultant, co-executive producer)
Writer
- Heroes
Heroes is an American fantasy television drama series created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives...
(as staff writer)
- Alias (as staff writer)
- Eight Legged Freaks
Eight Legged Freaks is a 2002 horror/comedy film directed by Ellory Elkayem and stars David Arquette, Kari Wührer, Scarlett Johansson and Doug E. Doug...
(2002) (as screenplay)
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