Patrick McManus
Executive Director

Patrick McManus

As the Emmy Award-winning director of American Ninja Warrior, Patrick knows how to deliver an awe-inspiring production.

In the last 30 years, Patrick has become one of the foremost Emmy Award-winning sports directors in the industry. Along with “American Ninja Warrior,” his resume also boasts the Netflix series “Ultimate Beastmaster” and “Hyperdrive,” FOX Sports’s “Thursday Night Football” pregame and halftime shows, ESPN’s SEC Network “Game of the Week,” and is an NBC Sports live event director on their Olympics coverage, most recently at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.