Nick Santora

Nick Santora is a writer and producer born in Queens, New York. Santora graduated from Columbia Law School and practiced law for six years before giving up full-time practice to write and produce television.

He is the son of Nicholas Angelo "Nicky Mouth" Santora, a high-ranking member and the reputed Underboss of the Bonanno crime family. Little Nicky's early successes were paved by father Nicky Mouth's, loansharking and illegal gambling operation that stretched from Brooklyn to Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island, and earned $210,000 a week from January 2003 to July 2004. Concerning writing for Law and Order, Nick said "I lived it." And Prison Break was "a subject that I knew about as well as my Bible studies."

He won the Best Screenplay of the Competition in the New York Independent International Film Festival. He has also written and/or produced The Sopranos, The Guardian, Law & Order, Prison Break and he created and executive produced Beauty and the Geek. He was an on-air correspondent for Court TV while in New York.

Nick also wrote and produced "The Longshots" [a Weinstein Co./Dimension film starring Ice Cube] and was a credited writer on the Lionsgate/Marvel film, "The Punisher: War Zone."

Santora's first novel, "Slip & Fall", was selected by Borders Books Stores to be the debut novel for their newly created publishing division. The novel, which became a National Best Seller its first week of being released, is available exclusively only at Borders or Amazon.com or www.nicksantora.com.

Prison Break (15 episodes)

• 1.06 - Riots, Drills, and the Devil (written)
• 1.10 - Sleight of Hand (written)
• 1.15 - By the Skin and the Teeth (written)
• 1.18 - Bluff (co-written with Karyn Usher)
• 2.04 - First Down (written)
• 2.09 - Unearthed (written)
• 2.12 - Disconnect (co-written with Karyn Usher)
• 2.14 - John Doe (co-written with Matt Olmstead)
• 2.16 - Chicago (co-written with Matt Olmstead)
• 2.18 - Wash (written)
• 3.04 - Good Fences (written)
• 3.08 - Bang & Burn (co-written with Christian Trokey)
• 3.12 - Hell or High Water (written)
• 4.03 - Shut Down (written)
• 4.09 - Greatness Achieved (written)
• 4.20 - Cowboys and Indians (written)

Law & Order (19 episodes)

• 326 - Paradigm (22 September 2004) (production)
• 327 - Dead Wives Club (22 September 2004) (produced & written)
• 328 - The Brotherhood (29 September 2004) (production)
• 329 - Coming Down Hard (6 October 2004) (production)
• 330 - Gunplay (20 October 2004) (production)
• 331 - Cut (27 October 2004) (production)
• 332 - Gov Love (10 November 2004) (production)
• 333 - Cry Wolf (17 November 2004) (produced & written)
• 334 - All in the Family (24 November 2004) (production)
• 337 - Mammon (5 January 2005) (production)
• 338 - Ain't No Love (12 January 2005) (production)
• 339 - Fluency (19 January 2005) (produced & written)
• 340 - Obsession (9 February 2005) (production)
• 342 - License to Kill (23 February 2005) (production)
• 345 - Tombstone (13 April 2005) (production)
• 346 - Publish and Perish (20 April 2005) (production)
• 347 - Sport of Kings (4 May 2005) (produced & written)
• 348 - In God We Trust (11 May 2005) (production)
• 349 - Locomotion (18 May 2005) (production)

The Sopranos (1 episode)

• 46 - Watching Too Much Television (27 October 2002) (written)

The Guardian (12 episodes)

• 2.05 - Assuming the Position (22 October 2002) (written)
• 2.09 - The Dark (26 November 2002) (written)
• 2.11 - No Good Deed (17 December 2002) (written)
• 2.17 - The Intersection (25 February 2003) (written)
• 2.22 - Sensitive Jackals (6 May 2003) (written)
• 3.02 - Big Coal (30 September 2003) (written)
• 3.09 - Let God Sort 'Em Out (25 November 2003) (written)
• 3.14 - All Is Mended (10 February 2004) (production)
• 3.16 - Sparkle (24 February 2004) (production)
• 3.17 - The Watchers (2 March 2004) (produced & written)
• 3.20 - The Vote (20 April 2004) (production)
• 3.21 - Blood In, Blood Out (27 April 2004) (produced & written)

External links

• Official Site
• Nick Santora at the Internet Movie Database