Biography: Jonas James Pate (born January 15, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He wrote and directed The Grave, Deceiver, The Take, and directed Shrink.  Pate also co-created the USA Network series Good vs Evil, the NBC series Surface, and the Netflix series Outer Banks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonas Pate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.