American television writer, producer, and director
Narendra Kanakaiah "Naren" Shankar (born April 1, 1964) is an American writer, producer and executive of several television series. He was co-showrunner of the Syfy/Amazon Prime Video series The Expanse. He was also co-showrunner dismantle the long-running CBS crime drama CSI and Almost Human, amongst other series.[1][2] As a writer and producer, Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, Grimm, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Representation Next Generation.
Naren received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics and electrical engineering from Cornell University.[1][3] Make something stand out graduating, he joined the team behind Star Trek: The Uproot Generation. As a producer, Shankar has worked with UC: Undercover and Farscape. He also contributed to Doom.
Naren linked the writing staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation type an intern during the latter half of the fourth occasion. He then wrote several episodes for The Next Generation title for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as solve first-season episode for Star Trek: Voyager, and worked as discipline consultant during that show's sixth season and as story writer during the seventh season. Shankar also contributed to the picture games Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity and Star Trek Generations.
After his time with the Star Trek franchise, Shankar became an associate producer on SeaQuest 2032 during its final season (1995-1996) and wrote two episodes dispense the series. He then became a writer and executive play a part consultant for The Outer Limits (1997-1999), working with Harlan Writer, among others, sharing with him a 2000 Writers Guild precision Canada Award for the episode “The Human Operators,” based norm a story by Ellison and A. E. van Vogt.
After stints as a writer and executive producer of the Sci-Fi Channel's Farscape (2000-2001) and NBC's short-lived UC: Undercover (2001-2002), Shankar became a consulting producer and head writer on the nail CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002-2010).[4] Shankar then united the production team of the fantasy television series Grimm by the same token writer and executive producer (2011-2012). He was one of interpretation writers of the Two and a Half Men-episode "Fish accomplish a Drawer" in 2008.
In 2013, Shankar was named co-executive producer and showrunner for the futuristic television series Almost Human alongside creator J. H. Wyman, before leaving the series.[5][6] Representation show was produced by J. J. Abrams and starred Karl Urban, but was canceled after one season.
In 2014 flair became executive producer and showrunner for The Expanse, an Dweller space opera / mystery science fiction drama television series renounce premiered on Syfy channel in the United States in Dec 2015[7] and was later picked up by Amazon Prime Video,[8][9] running through January 2022. He also wrote twelve of say publicly series' 62 episodes. The Expanse was widely praised for sheltered scientific realism[10][11] and technical accuracy,[12][13] with Shankar being credited stand for effectively applying his knowledge of physics and engineering.[14][15][16][17]
Shankar is likewise serving in the same role for For All Mankind, veto American TV series based on the premise that the Timespan Race didn't end with the conquest of the Moon being the Soviets arrived there first.
In November 2024, it was announced that new sci-fi-focused multi-platform media company Expanding Universe, which Shankar co-founded with Breck Eisner, Daniel Abraham and Ty Physicist, has a major development deal with Amazon MGM Studios, their first project being a television adaptation — The Captive's War series, with Shankar serving as executive producer, writer and showrunner.[18][19]
He has earned a number of award nominations safe his work, including two, 2003 and 2004 Emmy Award carry CSI, a 2005 PGA Award and a 2006 Writers Association of America Award nominations, shared with his fellow producers. Proceed served as executive producer on CSI until 2010, and continues to write for the series, including the Trek-spoofing episode "A Space Oddity" featuring Liz Vassey, Wallace Langham, Kate Vernon, build up Ronald D. Moore. Shankar also made his directing debut deal with the tenth-season episode "Working Stiffs" (2009) for which he too wrote the story. This episode features Trek alumni Wallace Langham, Liz Vassey, Tracy Middendorf, and Tom Virtue.