Writer/producer J. David Shanks recently signed a multi-year overall deal with AMC Studios. Currently, Shanks is executive producing AMC’s upcoming courtroom drama 61st Street. Created by BAFTA recipient Peter Moffat (The Night Of), the show is being executive produced by Michael B. Jordan along with Alana Mayo from Outlier Society. The show has received a two season order from the network.
Shanks’ writing resume can speak to his life; he served for the 82nd Airborne and the Chicago Police Department years prior to pursuing writing professionally. These experiences afforded him an authoritative voice while writing for the likes of NBC’s Shades of Blue, Fox’s Shots Fired, and Netflix’s Seven Seconds. The latter earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in A Motion Picture (TV). To add, Shanks has written for seasons one and two of The Chi. The writer is bringing more to television, as he just sold a pitch to Overbrook Entertainment with Antoine Fuqua producing the project. He has also penned a pilot for 50 Cent.
On becoming a writer and finding success Shanks says “I spent a lot of time dissatisfied with my life. Everything changed when I was finally tired of being tired and made a CHOICE. It all starts when you make a definitive choice to accept where you are and take full responsibility for taking yourself to where you want to be.”
Shanks is repped by manage-ment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
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