Joshua Safran

Joshua Safran is an American television screenwriter and executive producer.

Education Safran attended the Horace Mann School prior to graduating from NYU Tisch with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in playwriting. He has stated he is Jewish.

Career Safran was an executive producer and writer on The CW television series Gossip Girl, for which he was the showrunner for the series' fourth and fifth seasons, and was the executive producer and showrunner for the second season of the NBC television series Smash. He shared writing credits with director Shana Feste for the screenplay of the 2014 remake of the 1981 film Endless Love.

Safran was the creator, executive producer and showrunner (seasons one and two) of the ABC thriller drama series Quantico. Recently, he was credited as the creator, executive producer and showrunner for the Netflix musical television series Soundtrack.

He is set to create, executive produce and showrun the 2021 sequel series Gossip Girl for HBO Max. Safran is developing an untitled ghost drama for AMC with Annapurna Television.

Personal life Safran is openly gay.

Filmography Film Title Year Credited as Notes Writer Director Producer Endless Love 2014

Television The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

Title Year Credited as Network Notes Creator Director Writer Showrunner Executiveproducer Gossip Girl 2007–12 (18) The CW Smash 2013 (3) NBC Quantico 2015–18 (7) ABC Also consultant (season 3) Soundtrack 2019 (1) (3) Netflix Gossip Girl 2021–23 (5) (1) HBO Max Line of Fire 2026 NBC