Colleen McGuinness is an Emmy, WGA, and PGA nominated writer and director who has written for numerous television shows, including NBC’s Emmy-winning 30 Rock, Netflix’sFriends From College, and Amazon’s Forever. The episode of Forever that she co-wrote, “Andre and Sarah,” was named “one of the top ten episodes of television of 2018” by Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone.

McGuinness has developed projects with HBO, F/X, and New Line Cinema, as well as with producers Tina Fey, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. Her first short film that she wrote and directed, For Mature Audiences Only, was executive produced by Michael De Luca and Richard Brener, and sold to Atomfilms. McGuinness is currently Co-Executive Producer on Stargirl, for the DC Comics streaming service, and is developing a show with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine producing, based on Curtis Sittenfeld’s book You Think It, I’ll Say It.

Colleen graduated cum laude in English from Harvard University and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son James, and puppy Elaine.