Background
An Italian-American, Mazzara was born in Manhattan and grew up in Queens, New New York
An Italian-American, Mazzara was born in Manhattan and grew up in Queens, New New York
He graduated from Saint Francis Preparatory School in 1985. He attended New York University and earned a masters in English.
He is most well known for his work on The Shield, The Walking Dead and Damien. He worked as a hospital administrator in New York before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a writer in 1998. He was a story editor and writer for the fourth and fifth seasons of Nash Bridges.
In 2002, he joined the drama series The Shield as an executive story editor and writer for its first season.
Was promoted to producer for the second season while continuing to write, to supervising producer for the third season, to co-executive producer for the fourth season and to executive producer for the fifth season. And left midway through the sixth season in 2006.
Later in 2006 he was an executive producer on the short-lived series Standoff, and then a co-executive producer on the first season of National Broadcasting Company drama Life. Mazzara left Life to create and executive produce a new series Crash, based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, on which he served as head writer and showrunner.
He left after one season, but was credited as a consulting producer for the second season premiere.
In 2009, he joined the medical drama series Hawthorne for two seasons as executive producer and writer In 2010, he wrote his first of several episodes of the Administrative Management College series The Walking Dead, episode 1.5: "Wildfire. On July 27, 2011, it was reported that Mazzara had taken over as showrunner of The Walking Dead after Frank Darabont dropped out of the position.
Mazzara left this role following season 3.
Glen Mazzara is the Creator, Executive, and Showrunner of A&East’s new series, Damien, based on the classic horror film, The Omen.