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Anne Cofell Saunders

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Anne Cofell Saunders is an American television writer and producer.

Career

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Anne Cofell Saunders graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and earned an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University.[1]

After teaching English in Japan and backpacking around the world, she started her TV career working on the Fox series 24 as an assistant and head researcher. On 24, Cofell Saunders wrote her first freelance TV episode. Shortly afterwards, she was hired as a staff writer on SyFy’s series Battlestar Galactica, where she was nominated for a Hugo Award for her episode “Pegasus"[2] and won a Peabody Award. Since then, Cofell Saunders worked as a writer/producer on Chuck and the final two seasons of Smallville.[3]

In 2013, Cofell Saunders won a Saturn Award for her work as Co-Executive Producer on NBC's Revolution,[4] which was named Best Network Television Series. She was Co-Executive Producer on NBC's Timeless, then a Co-Executive Producer on Amazon's new hit show The Boys,[5] and recently, is developing "From Blood and Ash", an adaption of a romantic, fantasy book series for Amazon. She is attached to Executive Produce and Showrun.

Cofell Saunders resides in Los Angeles with her family.

References

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  1. ^ "Screenwriter of '24' to present workshop at las Cruces film festival".
  2. ^ "2006 Hugo Awards". 25 July 2007.
  3. ^ "Anne Cofell Saunders". 7 January 2020.
  4. ^ "#powerhalfhour with (Writer) Anne Cofell Saunders, & the cast will be attending 'the fall festival'".
  5. ^ "Amazon's 'The Boys' is the Superhero Movie the World Needs as It Brilliantly Twists the Genre and Attacks Stereotypes, Abusive Corporations and Organized Religion - Hollywood Insider". 16 September 2019.
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