Misha Green

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Misha Green (born September 22, 1984 in Sacramento , California ) is an American screenwriter and television producer who u. a. is the writer and executive producer of the Underground series , which she created. Together with Shonda Rhimes , Mara Brock Akil and Courtney Kemp Agboh , she is one of the few Afro-American show runners on US television.

life and career

Misha Green grew up in the California capital Sacramento and wrote her first screenplay in 2002 as part of her high school graduation thesis. After finishing school, she studied film and television at the Tisch School of the Arts , where she obtained a Bachelor of the Fine Arts degree with honors in 2006 . Her NYU Tisch professor and mentor, Susan Sandler, saw great potential in her even when she was a student and was appalled when she happened to meet her again after her studies while working in a restaurant. Even though Dry , Green's fourth script, was in the Sundance Labs finals at the time, she still didn't have a manager. So Sandler sent Dry to their own managers and recommended Green to them. In 2008, she also moved to Los Angeles to boost her career . Green's sixth script, the thriller Sunflower , eventually paved her way into the film industry after her managers sent it to a select few producers . It was the first script she could sell, and it made sure she could choose an agent before the sale was closed. In 2008, "Sunflower" made it onto the so-called Black List , a collection of popular but still unproduced scripts. During the two-month sales phase, Green initially continued to work as a waitress in a Thai restaurant in LA

In 2009 she made her breakthrough as a screenwriter on television. Heroes producers contacted her after reading Sunflower and hired her as a permanent writer. In the following years she was part of the writing staff of various hit series such as Sons of Anarchy , Spartacus and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena . Her first engagement as a producer was in 2014 for the series Helix .

In 2016 she developed the idea and concept for her own television series called Underground . The series implemented by the broadcaster WGN immediately turned out to be a great success and was widely praised in the press. It is about a group of escaped slaves in Georgia in 1857 and deals with the so-called Underground Railroad , a secret and illegal escape network operated by opponents of slavery . Misha Green acts with Joe Polaski , whom she met on Heroes, as showrunner , writer and executive producer on the series, which was renewed for a second season just a month after it first aired. For WGN it was the most watched in-house production to date.

Green received the Best Screenplay Award from Fusion Film Festival , a student organization of its alma mater NYU Tisch School , for Underground, which was also critically acclaimed .

Filmography

as a screenwriter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ They say it's your birthday ... In: misha writes. Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
  2. ^ Wilson Morales: Interview With WGN America's Underground Showrunners Misha Green & Joe Pokaski . In: Blackfilm.com . March 8, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Fusion film festival to screen Misha Greens Underground . In: New York University . March 28, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ misha writes. In: misha writes. Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Crason Reeves: Misha Green interview . In: Scriptshadow, reviewing the latest scripts in Hollywood . July 16, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  6. ^ WGN America Renews Standout Series 'Underground' for a Second Season . In: tribunemedia.com . April 25, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Green, Misha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California, United States