ABSTRACT
This chapter features an interview with writer Diana Son about her nearly twenty-year-long career as an award-winning playwright and TV writer-producer. She is a coexecutive producer of Dirty John for Bravo, was coshowrunner and executive producer of Season 1 of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, and has been Emmy-nominated twice as a coexecutive producer of the ABC series American Crime. In 2015 she created and executive-produced the pilot Love Is a Four-Letter Word for NBC, directed by George Tillman Jr. She has also been a writer-producer for a number of series including Southland, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Do No Harm, and started her TV career as a staff writer for The West Wing. Diana is also the author of the plays Stop Kiss, Satellites, BOY, R.A.W. (’Cause I’m a Woman), Fishes, and others. Stop Kiss and Satellites premiered at the Public Theater in NYC. Stop Kiss has been produced at hundreds of theaters nationally and abroad, and been translated into such languages as Hungarian, Japanese, and Korean.
