Dana Calvo

Dana Calvo is a screenwriter and television producer. Her most well-known credits include creating Amazon’s critically-acclaimed feminist drama, “Good Girls Revolt,” and launching and running the writers’ room of “Narcos,” the international smash hit on Netflix about drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

The feature she wrote for Participant Media is scheduled to begin principal photography this year, with Nicole Kassell directing.

Before her career in Hollywood, Calvo was an award-winning journalist, domestically and internationally, for the Los Angeles Times, the Tribune and The Associated Press. She covered presidential elections, drug-trafficking, culture, business and really big hurricanes.

Calvo graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in English Literature.

Currently, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, teenage daughter and two rescue dogs. She is repped by Dan Halsted at Manage-Ment and Andy Elkin at CAA.