Sarah Treem
| Sarah Treem | |
|---|---|
| Born | Boston, Massachusetts United States |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Writer-Producer Playwright |
| Years active | (2010-present) |
| Known for |
In Treatment The Affair |
| Spouse(s) | Jay Carson |
| Children | 1 |
Sarah Treem is an American TV writer-producer and playwright. She is the co-creator and showrunner of the Golden Globe-winning Showtime drama The Affair, which won for Outstanding Drama Series, and was a writer and co-executive producer on the inaugural season of House of Cards, which was nominated for nine Golden Globes, including Outstanding Drama Series. She also wrote on all three seasons of the HBO series In Treatment.
Treem was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a mother who works as a consultant/angel investor and advisor to start-ups and to a father who is a pediatric gastroenterologist. She grew up in New Hampshire, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Connecticut, and North Carolina with her parents and brother. Treem considers New Haven to be her home town.
Treem has been writing from a very young age, beginning with poetry when she was 8 years old. When she was 12, Treem's first play won a young playwright contest and was staged in Connecticut. She continued to write throughout high school and college.
Treem has a 2002 B.A. from Yale College, where she was in the residential college Branford College, and a 2005 M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. During college Treem interned at New Dramatists.
Having started her career in theater, Treem’s most recent stage production When We Were Young and Unafraid premiered in the summer of 2014, which starred Cherry Jones and was directed by Pam MacKinnon. A Feminine Ending premiered at Playwrights Horizons and went on to be produced at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, among others. The How and The Why premiered at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, NJ. It was directed by Emily Mann and starred Mercedes Ruehl. It also went on to productions at Interact Theatre and Trinity Repertory. Treem's other plays include Empty Sky (Bloomington Playwrights Project), Orphan Island (Sundance Theater Lab), Human Voices (New York Stage and Film) and Mirror Mirror.
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