Jason Katims
Jason Katims is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known for being the head writer and executive producer of both Friday Night Lights, on which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 2011 for his work on the series finale, and Parenthood. He has also worked on Relativity, which he created and wrote for Roswell, which he developed, produced and wrote for Boston Public, which he cowrote Pepper Dennis About a Boy and the 1996 movie The Pallbearer, starring David Schwimmer and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Jason Katims was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. His father was an actor and a salesman his mother, an English and philosophy major, did some teachings. He has an older brother and sister.
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