Misha Green


Misha Green is an American television writer and producer, best known as creator and executive producer of the historical drama Underground.

Career

Green has previously been a staff writer for Heroes and Sons of Anarchy and a producer for Helix.
In 2016, together with fellow Heroes alumnus Joe Pokaski, Green created Underground, a period drama about the Underground Railroad, which takes place primarily in the Antebellum South and bordering free states of the North. The first season premiered on WGN America on March 9, 2016, and the show received an overwhelmingly positive critical response. On April 25, 2016, the network renewed Underground for a second season, which premiered on March 8, 2017. It was confirmed in May of the same year that Green will be writing supernatural horror show, Lovecraft Country, which will be produced by Get Out director and writer Jordan Peele. Based on the novel of the same name, the series will tackle race issues and will be set in the 1950s, while also utilizing elements of H.P. Lovecraft. The show has received a "straight-to-series" order from HBO. The series will co-star her Underground star, Jurnee Smollett-Bell.