| Jose Molina | |
| Birth Date: | 1971 |
| Birth Place: | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, producer, podcaster |
| Genre: | Science fiction, Mystery |
Jose Molina, born in 1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a television producer and screenwriter. He wrote the episodes "Trash" and "Ariel" for the American TV show Firefly, and multiple episodes for Dark Angel.
Molina attended Yale University (Pierson College, class of 1993), where he successfully applied for a student internship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by submitting a spec script for .
Following Firefly, Molina worked on , earning the 2006 American Latino Media Arts Award for "Outstanding Script for a Television Drama or Comedy" for the episode "Alien". The Official Firefly Visual Companion #3, "Still Flying," released in May 2010, features a short story written by Molina. He wrote the episodes "Famous Last Words" and "Suicide Squeeze" for the television series Castle, on which he served as Co-Executive Producer, a title Molina carried into the first season of the Syfy original series Haven.
Molina followed his stint in genre cable with a return to in-network genre, becoming one of the head writers on the Steven Spielberg-produced series Terra Nova, which aired for 13 episodes in the fall at Fox. After the cancellation of Terra Nova, Molina moved briefly to NBC's rookie fairy-tale drama Grimm before landing on the flagship of The CW Network, The Vampire Diaries. More recent projects include La Brea, Legacies and Blood & Treasure .
Alongside, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, he is also the co-host of the Children of Tendu Podcast, a weekly series offering advice for getting into the television industry.[1]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=65 | Writer | width=65 | Producer | ||
| 1999 | Strange World | Writer (1 episode) | |||
| 2000–2002 | Dark Angel | Writer (8 episodes); story editor | |||
| 2002–2003 | Firefly | Writer (2 episodes); executive story editor | |||
| 2004–2006 | Writer (6 episodes); story editor, executive story editor; co-producer, producer | ||||
| 2006–2008 | Without a Trace | Writer (5 episodes); supervising producer; co-executive producer | |||
| 2009–2010 | Castle | Writer (2 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2010 | Haven | Writer (2 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2011 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Writer (3 episodes) | |||
| 2011 | Terra Nova | Writer (1 episode); co-executive producer | |||
| 2012 | Grimm | Writer (1 episode); co-executive producer | |||
| 2012–2013 | The Vampire Diaries | Writer (4 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2013 | Sleepy Hollow | Writer (2 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2015–2016 | Agent Carter | Writer (2 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2017–2018 | The Tick | Writer (3 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2019 | Weird City | Writer (1 episode); executive producer/showrunner | |||
| 2021 | La Brea | Writer (1 episode); co-executive producer | |||
| 2021-2022 | Legacies | Writer (2 episodes); co-executive producer | |||
| 2022 | Blood & Treasure | Writer (2 episodes); consulting producer | |||