ABSTRACT
This chapter features an interview with Bathsheba “Bash” Doran, the creator and executive producer of Traitors for Channel 4 and Netflix. She was a showrunner of the HBO series Demimonde, written by J. J. Abrams, and is currently developing Kate Atkinson’s novel Life after Life for the BBC/HBO. She was a coexecutive producer on Hulu’s The Looming Tower. Other TV writing and producing includes Masters of Sex for Showtime and Smash for NBC. Her first television job was on Boardwalk Empire and earned her a WGA nomination. She cowrote the film Outlaw King with director David MacKenzie. Bash’s play The Mystery of Love & Sex received its world premiere at Lincoln Center in 2015 under the direction of Sam Gold, starring Diane Lane and Tony Shalhoub. Her critically acclaimed play Kin received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2011.
