Colette Burson is a screenwriter, Writers Guild and Golden Globe nominated television creator, and director. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. She was a founding member of the Playwrights' Collective, a playwright based theater company, for six years in NYC. After moving to Los Angeles in 2009 she created and was the showrunner of the half-hour comedy "Hung" for HBO (2010-2012), which hired more female directors than any other show in cable at that time. Hung has been described as having a mercilessly feminist point of view and was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for Best New Series as well as four Golden Globes. In 2017 Burson directed the feature film "Permanent" starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson which was based on her childhood growing up in the south. In 2021 she will adapt the best-selling novel "The Growing Season" by Sarah Frey for ABC, and is also creating the limited series "Love Canal" for Showtime. Past work on shows includes "Los Espookys" for HBO and "The Riches" for FX.