New House Of Cards Showrunners Announced By Netflix

New House Of Cards Showrunners Announced By Netflix

Netflix has named two new show runners for their original seriesHouse of Cards, replacing the show’s creatorBeau Willimon. The streaming service is promoting two of the senior writers who have been working on the show since 2014. The new House of Cards showrunners will beMelissa James Gibson(whose plays includePlacebo,What Rhymes with America,This, [sic],Suitcase or, Those that Resemble Flies from a DistanceandBrooklyn Bridge) andFrank Pugliese(whose theater work includesAven’U Boys,The King of Connecticut,The Talk,The Alarm,The Democracy Project).Read the full press release, after the jump.

MELISSA JAMES GIBSON AND FRANK PUGLIESENAMED SHOWRUNNERS FORNETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES,HOUSE OF CARDS

Season Four of Award-Winning Drama LaunchesFriday, March 4on Netflix

Beverly Hills, CA –July 07, 2025– Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese, two senior writers who have been withHouse of Cardssince 2014, have been promoted to showrunners of the award-winning Netflix original series, from Media Rights Capital.

“I welcome Frank and Melissa in their new roles onHouse of Cardsand look forward to collaborating with them and our creative team on Season Five,” said executive producer Kevin Spacey.  “We and the rest of theHouse of Cardswriters look forward to the next chapter of the reign of Underwood,” said Gibson and Pugliese.

Pugliese and Gibson both joined the series in its third season.

The critically acclaimed Emmy®­ nominated drama has its Golden Globe®and SAG Award winning star Kevin Spacey (as Francis Underwood) and Golden Globe®winner Robin Wright (as Claire Underwood), whose characters have always been each other’s strongest allies, showing cracks in their relationship. In an election year, the stakes are now higher than ever, and the biggest threat they face is contending with each other.

House of Cardsalso stars Michael Kelly, Mahershala Ali, Jayne Atkinson, Neve Campbell, Derek Cecil, Nathan Darrow, Kim Dickens, Elizabeth Marvel, Dominique McElligott, Molly Parker, Paul Sparks, with Ellen Burstyn, Cicely Tyson and Joel Kinnaman.

All 13-episodes of the show’s upcoming fourth season will debut onFriday, March 4, 2016on Netflix.

Tucker Gates (Homeland,Bates Motel), Robin Wright (House of Cards), Tom Shankland (The Missing), Alex Graves (Game of Thrones,Bloodline), Kari Skogland (The Walking Dead,Penny Dreadful) and Jakob Verbruggen (The Fall,London Spy) all directed season-four episodes.

Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, fourth season of House of Cards is executive produced by Gibson, Pugliese, David Fincher, Kevin Spacey, Eric Roth, Beau Willimon, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs and Robin Wright. The one-hour drama is produced by Donen/Fincher/Roth and Trigger Street Productions, Inc. in association with Media Rights Capital for Netflix.

Melissa James Gibson’s plays includePlacebo,What Rhymes with America,This, [sic],Suitcase or, Those that Resemble Flies from a DistanceandBrooklyn Bridge(with a song by Barbara Brousal) and have premiered at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep and the Atlantic Theater Company, among others. She is the recipient of honors including an OBIE Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Kesselring Prize and the Whiting Writers Award. She has taught playwriting at Princeton University and is an alumna of the Yale School of Drama. She wrote the feature filmAll Is Bright(Tribeca Film Festival). In addition toHouse of Cards, Gibson’s television work includesThe Americans(FX), for which she received a Writer’s Guild Award nomination.

Frank Pugliese’s work in theater includesAven’U Boys(Off-Broadway, Obie Award);The King of Connecticut,The Talk,The Alarm,The Democracy Project(all with Naked Angels);The Summer Winds(NY Stage and Film);Hope is the Thing with Feathers(The Drama Dept.);KAOS(New York Stage and Film). His television credits includeHomicide, for which he won a WGA Award;Lawand Order;Borgias; andCopper, among others.Film credits include,Shot in the Heart, Undefeated,and the upcomingBorder Crossing.Pugliese is associate professor of television writing at the Columbia University Graduate Film Department; and is the co-director of the television writing program at La Femis, in Paris. He has taught screenwriting and television writing for playwrights at the Yale School of Drama, and the New School. He is a current member and former artistic director of Naked Angels.

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