Jason Katims

Jason Katims
Katims at the August 2014 Voice Awards
Born	(1960-11-30) November 30, 1960 (age 56) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, US
Occupation	Producer Screenwriter
Nationality	American
Notable works	Roswell Friday Night Lights Parenthood About a Boy
Spouse	Kathy Katims
Children	2

Jason Katims (born November 30, 1960) is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known for being the head writer and executive producer of both Friday Night Lights, on which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 2011 for his work on the series finale, and Parenthood. He has also worked on Relativity, which he created and wrote for; Roswell, which he developed, produced and wrote for; Boston Public, which he co-wrote; Pepper Dennis; About a Boy; and the 1996 movie The Pallbearer, starring David Schwimmer and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Jason Katims was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. His father was an actor and a salesman; his mother, an English and philosophy major, "did some teachings". He has an older brother and sister.

He studied theater at Queens College in Queens, New York City.

He has two children, Phoebe and Sawyer Katims.

Katims was a playwright in New York until director and producer Ed Zwick asked him if he wanted to write for television and films.

In 1994, he wrote three episodes for the ABC teen drama My So-Called Life. He created Relativity in 1996 but the TV series was cancelled after 17 episodes. He subsequently was involved in Roswell and in Boston Public.