Debora Cahn


Debora Cahn is an American writer and producer of television and film. She was a writer and executive producer on the Showtime series Homeland for its final two seasons . She was also a writer and consulting producer on FX's Fosse/Verdon , for which she won a Writers Guild of America award for Best Adapted Long Form Television. In 2018, she wrote the HBO film Paterno, starring Al Pacino and directed by Barry Levinson. She was a writer and co-executive producer for Martin Scorsese's HBO series Vinyl. From 2006 to 2013, she was a writer and producer of Grey’s Anatomy. She began her career as a writer and producer on The West Wing'' from its fourth to seventh and final season.
Cahn has won an Emmy Award and two Writers Guild of America awards, and has received multiple nominations.

Biography

Cahn graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University and received a master's degree in acting from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. In 2006, Cahn married Michael Heller.

Awards and nominations

In 2020, Cahn won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Long Form Television for Fosse/Verdon. In 2006 and 2007, Cahn was part of the writing staff for two television series' nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and the ; The West Wing in 2006 and Grey's Anatomy in 2007. In 2005, Cahn won the for the fifth-season episode "The Supremes".

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