Carlton Cuse

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Carlton Cuse

Date of Birth	March 22, 1959 (age 49)

Origin	Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Job(s)	Executive producer Writer Co-host of podcast

IMDb profile

Carlton Cuse is a writer and executive producer on Lost. The WGA states that he is the show runner on Lost (i.e., he oversees budgets, script assignments, characters' story arcs, etc.). Cuse is based at the Los Angeles offices of Grass Skirt Productions, although he frequently travels to Hawaii to be with the film crew on set.

Cuse also co-hosts the Official Lost podcast with Damon Lindelof.

1 Work on Lost
2 Background
3 Awards
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 External links

Work on Lost

Cuse has written the following episodes of Lost:

Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4
"Hearts and Minds" (with Javier Grillo-Marxuach) "Deus Ex Machina" (with Damon Lindelof) "Exodus, Part 1" (with Damon Lindelof) "Exodus, Part 2" (with Damon Lindelof)	"...And Found" (with Damon Lindelof) "The Other 48 Days" (with Damon Lindelof) "The 23rd Psalm" (with Damon Lindelof) "One of Them" (with Damon Lindelof) "Lockdown" (with Damon Lindelof) "?" (with Damon Lindelof) "Live Together, Die Alone" (with Damon Lindelof)	"Further Instructions" (with Elizabeth Sarnoff) "I Do" (with Damon Lindelof) "Not in Portland" (with Jeff Pinkner) "Enter 77" (with Damon Lindelof) "One of Us" (with Drew Goddard) "The Brig" (with Damon Lindelof) "Through the Looking Glass" (with Damon Lindelof)	"The Beginning of the End" (with Damon Lindelof) "The Constant" (with Damon Lindelof) "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" (with Damon Lindelof)

Cuse also wrote mobisodes "The Watch" and "Tropical Depression".

Background

Cuse created Nash Bridges and Martial Law
Worked on The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
- The primary story arc of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. involved time travel and centered around a mysterious object called 'The Orb' that was sent from the future to help mankind. This bears some similarity to some of the theories surrounding the nature of Lost's mysteries.
His production company Carlton Cuse Productions, produced the shows he created.

Awards

Emmy Awards:
- Won for "Outstanding Drama Series", for Lost (2005)
- Nominated for "Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series", with Damon Lindelof, for "The 23rd Psalm" (2006)
- Nominated for "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series", with Damon Lindelof, for "Through the Looking Glass" (2007)

Trivia

Conflicting sources credit the "Previously on Lost" voice at the beginning to Lloyd Braun [1] or Cuse [2]. According to a follow-up response by script coordinator Gregg Nations, early episodes might have used Lloyd's voice, but it has definitely been Carlton's voice on the more recent episodes for a while now.
Cuse was the offscreen voice for the lottery show in "Numbers" that said "That's right, Mary Jo, because this is the 16th week without a winner," according to the April 30, 2007 Lost Podcast.
Cuse provided the voice for the Hanso Foundation commercial, as hinted in the May 4, 2007 podcast.
Cuse was the voice of Jacob that said "Help Me" in "The Man Behind the Curtain" according to the May 11, 2007 Lost Podcast.
Cuse voices the off-screen newsperson on "Action 8 News" describing the car crash following Jack's suicide attempt. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Cuse is a graduate of Harvard University [3]
Cuse appears on the DVD extra "Lost in a Day" on the Lost: The Complete Third Season (DVD).