Colette Burson

Colette Burson (born June 22 1970) is an American television writer, screenwriter, producer and director. She is the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the HBO television show, Hung. She also wrote for The Riches and is the writer and director of the 2017 film Permanent. 2Early life and education Burson grew up in Abingdon, Virginia. She attended the University of Virginia, majoring in rhetoric and French, and went on to receive her MFA in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. 2Career Burson was a founding member of the theater company the Playwrights Collective, working at the company from 1991 until 1999, along with Kate Robin, Eduardo Machado, Lucy Thurber, Dan Rybicky, Dmitry Lipkin and Wendy Riss. 2Hung Burson created Hung for HBO with her then-writing partner and now ex-husband Dmitry Lipkin. The show ran for three seasons, during which time Burson was nominated for a WGA award for Best New Series while Hung was nominated for four Golden Globes. The New York Times described Hung as “the most topical fictional programming on television” in 2010. The show examined gender and racial diversity at a time when it was not commonly discussed or held up as a goal for television creator