Philip levens - Writer, Producer, Showrunner

Philip Levens is a veteran TV writer, producer, and showrunner. He created and was showrunner of the limited series “Ascension” for Universal and Lionsgate, Executive Producing along with Jason Blum (“Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious”). 

Philip Levens has sold 20 pilots to television networks—among them “Red Queen” for ABC, “Finders/Keepers” for USA, “Nightwatch” for Fox—and adapted the graphic novel Rest for NBC. His other works include a serialized trial series for A&E called “The Accused,” “Deep State” for Televisa, as well as a pilot for CBS based on a famous Texas attorney.

Philip Levens grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and attended The University of Texas in Austin before moving to Los Angeles. He began his career as a writer/producer on the CW's “Smallville,” CBS’s “Wolf Lake,” Fox’s “Night Visions,” and NBC’s new “Knight Rider.” And he was Executive Producer, along with Jennifer Lopez, on Paramount’s “South Beach.”

Philip Levens has also written projects for Ice Cube, Will and Jada Smith, and Michael Jackson; studios like Imagine, Joel Silver, Marvel, Warner Bros, Universal, Disney, and Lionsgate; and had a two-year deal with Sony Television to develop pilots.

In film, Philip Levens's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, Found in the Street, was developed by John Malkovich. Philip Levens also re-wrote the Wachowski Brothers’ script “Vertical Run” at Warners and wrote a draft of the screenplay “Wonder Woman.”

hers' script "Vertical Run" at Warners and wrote a  draft of the screenplay "Wonder Woman."

• Writer/Executive Producer
  CBS Television Studios
  Jun 2015  –  Present 5 years 4 months
• Television Writer/Exec. Producer
  Dreamtiger Entertainment Inc.
  Jan 1994  –  Present 26 years 9 months
• Writer/Executive Producer
  Lionsgate
  2012  –  2015 3 years
• Executive Producer / Showrunner
  Universal Pictures
  2012  –  2014 2 years
• Writer/Exec. Producer
  Disney ABC Television Group
  2013  –  2013 less than a year
• Writer/Executive Producer
  USA Networks
  Jul 2011  –  Sep 2012 1 year 3 months
  PILOT DEVELOPMENT
• Writer/CoExec. Producer
  NBCUniversal, Inc.
  2008  –  2009 1 year
• Writer / Exec. Producer
  Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Jan 2006  –  Sep 2008 2 years 9 months
  Development Deal
• Showrunner/Executive Producer
  Paramount Pictures
  2005  –  2006 1 year
• Writer/Producer/Development
  Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies
  2002  –  2004 2 years
  PILOT DEVELOPMENT
• Writer/Producer
  The CW/ DC50 TV (Tribune)
  Jan 2001  –  Dec 2003 3 years
• Writer
  Fox Television
  1999  –  2000 1 year
• Writer/Producer/Development
  Spelling Entertainment Inc
  1997  –  1999 2 years
  ALL SOULS, PILOT DEVELOPMENT

• The University of Texas at Austin