American writer, producer and director who co-created Star Trek: Discovery and oversees the expanded modern Star Trek television franchise.
Alex Kurtzman is an American writer, producer and director. With his longtime writing partner Roberto Orci he wrote for Alias, co-created Fringe with J. J. Abrams, wrote the Transformers films and co-wrote Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness, which launched the Kelvin timeline.
In 2017 Kurtzman co-created Star Trek: Discovery with Bryan Fuller and became its executive producer. Through his production company Secret Hideout he went on to oversee a greatly expanded slate of Star Trek, co-creating Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and executive producing Lower Decks, Prodigy, Short Treks and the film Star Trek: Section 31.
Kurtzman served as co-showrunner of Discovery for its later seasons alongside Michelle Paradise, and as co-showrunner of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy with Noga Landau. Outside Star Trek he directed the 2017 film The Mummy.