Nick Santora

Nick Santora (born 1970) is an American screenwriter, producer, and author born in Queens, New York. He won the Best Screenplay of the Competition in the New York City Independent International Film Festival. He has also written for and/or produced The Sopranos, The Guardian, Law & Order, Prison Break, Lie to Me, and Scorpion and he created and executive produced Beauty and the Geek. Santora also co-wrote/created/executive produced the television series Breakout Kings. He served as executive producer and developer of Scorpion from 2014 to 2018 over four seasons.

Career Santora graduated from Washington University in St. Louis before attending Columbia Law School and practiced law for six years before giving up a full-time practice to write and produce television.

Santora also wrote and produced The Longshots, a film starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer, and was a credited writer on the Lionsgate/Marvel Studios film Punisher: War Zone.

Other work Santora's first novel, Slip & Fall, was selected by Borders Books Stores to be the debut novel for their newly created publishing division. It was a National Best Seller. His second novel, Fifteen Digits, was published in 2012 by Little Brown's suspense/thriller imprint, Mulholland Books.

Filmography Film The Longshots (2008) Punisher: War Zone (2008) Safety (2020) Dog Gone (2023) Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story (2026)

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