Sarah Treem is the co-creator and showrunner of the Showtime drama The Affair, which won the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Drama Series, and was a writer and co-executive producer on the inaugural season of House of Cards, which was nominated for nine Golden Globes, including Outstanding Drama Series.
17 Facts About Sarah Treem
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Sarah Treem wrote on all three seasons of the HBO series In Treatment.
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Sarah Treem grew up in New Hampshire, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Connecticut, and North Carolina with her parents and brother.
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Sarah Treem has been writing from a very young age, beginning with poetry when she was eight years old.
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Sarah Treem continued to write throughout high school and college.
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Sarah Treem graduated high school from Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina in 1998.
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Sarah Treem's other plays include Empty Sky, Orphan Island, Human Voices, and Mirror Mirror.
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Sarah Treem then moved on to writing and co-executive producing the political drama House of Cards.
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In 2014, Sarah Treem co-created the hit Showtime series The Affair.
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In December 2019, a Hollywood Reporter article reported that Sarah Treem had been accused of inappropriately pressuring actors to do nude scenes on The Affair.
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In November 2019, Sarah Treem signed a multi-year deal with Fox 21 television studios to create and produce series for their network, cable and streaming platforms.
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Sarah Treem is currently developing a limited series based on the life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, for actress Gal Gadot to star in.
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Sarah Treem wrote an essay about the reality of "having it all" as a working mother for Red Magazine in 2017, in a post that eventually went viral.
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In October 2022, Sarah Treem married Icelandic game designer Torfi Frans Olafsson.
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Sarah Treem teaches on Series Mania Writers' Campus, with fellow television writer Martie Cook, a week-long intensive on television drama.
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All of Sarah Treem's plays and film work have high percentages of female roles.
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Sarah Treem has forged ongoing creative relationships with actresses like Zoe Kazan and Alison Pill.