He attended the
University of California at Santa Cruz majoring in economics for three weeks, before finding his passion with the theatre arts/film program. He minored in English literature. His first show business endeavour was as an assistant in feature film publicity at
MGM Studios, which led to him meeting many executives. For his first
spec script sale, he partnered with college friend, David Draffin, for the feature film action-comedy, "Bombshell," with executive producers Team Todd and
New Line Cinema. He went on to co-write the Christmas action-comedy, "Kringle," with
Andrew Cosby, and executive producers
Akiva Goldsman and
Mark Canton. Later, Paglia and Cosby went on to co-create
Eureka for the
Syfy channel.
Eureka In 2003, Paglia and Cosby sold their
dramedy Eureka to
Syfy as a pitch. In July 2006, the series premiered to critical and viewer success. Over the course of the show's seven-year run and 77 episodes, Paglia was the co-showrunner and wrote 20 episodes. He made his directing debut with the fifth-season episode, "Jack of All Trades."
The Flash In summer 2014, Paglia was hired as co-executive producer to run the writers' room on the first season of the
DC Comics produced
CW superhero series
The Flash. He co-wrote the series' 6th episode, "The Flash Is Born," which introduced the supervillain
Girder.
Scream TV Series In 2015, Paglia was hired as executive producer and co-showrunner for season one of the
MTV slasher series
Scream. Paglia is credited for writing the 6th episode, "Betrayed," and the season one finale, "Revelations." ==Filmography==