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Monica Macer
is a
writer
and
producer
. She is credited as the showrunner and executive producer of the new
Netflix
comedy-drama series
Gentefied
.
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Biography
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Macer is a 1993 graduate of
Vassar College
. She began her career in theater arts in New York City.
She co-produced an independent feature film, Park Day, and won the Audience Award at the Urban World Film Festival for that movie.
She then focused on television. She worked as an assistant at Nickelodeon Movies and a creative executive for the Walt Disney Company. She was then selected by the
Fox
Writers Program. She was a producers' assistant for the second and third seasons of
24
. She went on to become a writers' assistant for the first season of
Lost
in 2004. Macer and the
Lost
writing staff won the
Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award
for Best Dramatic Series at the
February 2006 ceremony
for their work on the first and second seasons.
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She became a story editor and writer on
Prison Break
. She was an executive story editor for the short-lived
Knight Rider
remake.
In February 2019, it was announced that Macer would be credited as an executive producer and showrunner for the upcoming
Netflix
comedy-drama series
Gentefied
.
[1]
In July 2020, Macer was announced as showrunner for
MacGyver
after series creator
Peter Lenkov
was fired by
CBS
.
[3]
Macer is a member of the
Motion Picture & Television Fund
(MPTF) NextGen Board of Directors.
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