Joshua Safran is an American television producer and screenwriter. Safran graduated from NYU Tisch with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in playwriting. He has stated he is Jewish. Safran was an executive producer and writer on the CW television series Gossip Girl 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 is the creator, executive producer and the former showrunner of the ABC drama thriller series Quantico. He is currently the creator, executive producer and showrunner of musical television series Mixtape for Netflix and is developing an untitled ghost drama for AMC, both with Annapurna Television. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia