James Manos Jr.

He wrote and sold the half-hour series "Staying Brown" about two Puerto Rican ladies from the barrio on the lamb in Europe to Amazon as well as the one-hour comedy "The Slow and Complete Decompensation of Jim Manos" to TNT.

He wrote "Chess" for the writer/producers David McFadzean and Matt Williams and "Brand" a series about the world of counterfeiting high end merchandise.

He produced the award-winning movie The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, starring Holly Hunter and Beau Bridges, for HBO.

He has directed numerous plays regionally and in New York, including Inge's The Disposal, Mrozek's Vatzlav, Ionesco's The Lesson, Molière's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, and Arthur Miller's Some Kind of Love Story.

He also just completed a one-man Off-Broadway show "In the Pocket" which tells the life of Mark Rivera, a virtuoso musician who has always been a "sideman" but now he wants to stand in the limelight.