Carlton Cuse

Arthur Carlton Cuse is an American screenwriter, showrunner, producer and director, born in Mexico City on March 22, 1959, and best known for the television series Lost, for which he made the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. He graduated from Harvard University in 1981 with a major in American history and began his career as an assistant and script reader in Hollywood before writing for the series Crime Story. He formed a partnership with the feature writer Jeffrey Boam, with whom he helped develop Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3 and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2015 disaster film San Andreas. In television he was creator, writer, showrunner and executive producer of the A&E series Bates Motel with Kerry Ehrin, showrunner of The Returned, and co-creator with Ryan Condal of Colony. His mentorship of writers who went on to run their own shows earned him Variety's Creative Leadership Award in 2015.