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. In 2018 she
worked as an EP on This Close (Sundance Channel) and as a consulting
producer for Los Espookys for HBO. She also wrote for The Riches and
is the writer and director of the 2017 film Permanent.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.[unreliable source?]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, Jennifer Farber Dulos, Carrie Luft, Dmitry Lipkin and Wendy
Riss.
screenwriter, producer and director. She is the creator, executive
producer and showrunner of the HBO television show, Hung. In 2018 she
worked as an EP on This Close (Sundance Channel) and as a consulting
producer for Los Espookys for HBO. She also wrote for The Riches and
is the writer and director of the 2017 film Permanent.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.[unreliable source?]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, Jennifer Farber Dulos, Carrie Luft, Dmitry Lipkin and Wendy
Riss.
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