Jorge Zamacona

Jorge Zamacona (born December 30, 1959) is an American television writer and producer. He worked extensively on the police drama Homicide: Life on the Street and wrote the series' crossover episodes with the crime drama Law & Order. Zamacona co-created the police dramas 10-8: Officers on Duty and Wanted.

Biography Zamacona was born on December 30, 1959, in Madigan Army Hospital in Fort Lewis, Washington. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until he relocated to Los Angeles in 1980. In 1983, he graduated with a degree in television and film writing and production from California State University-Northridge.

In 2009, Zamacona became a consulting producer and writer for the ABC police drama The Unusuals. The series was created by Noah Hawley and focused on detectives in the New York homicide unit. The series was canceled after ten episodes. Zamacona wrote the episode "The Dentist".

2010s In 2010, Zamacona was attached to new series The Saint as an executive producer. Following that series, Zamacona served as the Consulting Producer and writer on the TNT show Proof in 2015. The next year, Zamacona stayed with TNT as the Co-Executive Producer and Writer on The Last Ship that starred Eric Dane. Also, in 2016, Zamacona was the Executive Producer on ABC's Quantico starring Priyanka Chopra. In 2019, Zamacona resumed working alongside Tom Fontana for Showtime's City on a Hill , starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, as a Co-Executive Producer and writer.