Jon-Alexander Genson
Jon is a Mexican-American writer from a small lake town north of Chicago, where he was raised by a single, hypercritical Mexican immigrant mother. He served in the U.S. Army as Military Police, deploying to Guantanamo Bay before earning a BA in Creative Writing from Illinois State University. He worked for four years with TV writer-turned-literary manager Sheree Guitar, during which he became an alumnus of the WGA’s Support Staff Training Program and the yearlong intensive Veterans Writing Project. In the latter, he developed a horror TV pilot with showrunner Craig Sweeny and writers Christina Walker and Eli Edelson. The following year, he crafted a darkly Coenesque procedural pilot with writers Wendy West, Greg Cope White, and showrunner Robert Munic. Jon’s stories always stem from a personal, emotional place—what terrifies him most. Because horror didn’t just help him find his voice by embracing his otherness; it encouraged him to lean into it completely.
He is currently the Writers’ Assistant on CBS’s FBI: MOST WANTED, where he recently co-wrote his first episode.
Represented by:
Literary Manager, Brittany Meckelborg
Sheree Guitar Entertainment
brittany@shereeguitarent.com
THE SANGUIVORE
Feature
In an attempt to overcome his spiraling insecurity, Pete Wiley – a small town cop – investigates a series of disappearances, only to unexpectedly fall for a dom in the process, who may be harboring a dark insecurity of her own… Love’s weird.
Harkwood
Serialized One-Hour | Horror/Thriller
When a grisly murder drags a county detective home, he discovers the lead suspect is his estranged brother, forcing them to face the fractured past of what haunted them as kids: Are Monsters Real? A darkly Coenesque thriller akin to THE OUTSIDER with shades of the surreal otherworldliness of THE LEFTOVERS.
Wayside
One-Hour | Procedural Drama
After the brother he betrayed goes missing, and his grifter niece shows up on his doorstep, an ex army cop hits the road with her to solve his brother's disappearance while solving offbeat crimes along the way.