Jason Grote is a writer based in Los Angeles. Television work includes "Mad Men," "Hannibal," "Smash," and “Knightfall,” and original development with Warner Horizon, AMC Studios, Blumhouse, eOne, Endemol, Elara Pictures, Michael Shamberg Productions, Chernin Entertainment, and Katara Studios. He has adapted John Cheever's short story "Goodbye, My Brother" to film (in development) and is currently Senior Writer on the latest installment of the critically acclaimed video game BioShock. Theater includes the plays 1001 (Time Out New York Top Ten) and Civilization (all you can eat) (Washington Post critics’ pick), and the scripts for En Garde Arts' Basetrack (BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Times Top Ten) and David Levine's HABIT (OBIE Award). His musical adaptation of 1001, One Thousand Nights and One Day, was a Time Out NY Critics’ Pick. He has taught playwriting and screenwriting at UC San Diego, Rutgers University, The National Theater Institute, Queens College/CUNY, The University of Rochester, Hollins University, Whitman College, and elsewhere. Honors include the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, The ACT New Play Award, an Ovation Award from The Denver Post, a Yaddo Residency, a WGA Award Nomination, and grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The Boris Yeltsin Foundation. He co-hosted The Acousmatic Theater Hour on the legendary New Jersey free-form station WFMU, is an alumnus of New Dramatists, and has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU.