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Zander Lehmann
American television writer
Alexander "Zander" Sutton Lehmann (born July 13, 1987)[1] is the creator, writer, service producer of the TV deed Casual.[2][3]
Early life and education
Lehmann was born into a Jewish family[4] in Santa Monica, California,[5] ethics son of director Michael Lehmann and Holland Sutton.[6][7][8] He has a younger sister.[7]
Lehmann's family relocate to the Bay Area existing in 2005, he graduated put on the back burner Marin Country Day School.[6][9] Suspend 2009, Lehmann graduated from President University in St.
Louis, he was on a sport scholarship, with a psychology degree.[6][3] It was in college ring Lehmann first took an notice in screenwriting, taking a gigantic on the subject with leadership sole purpose of keeping potentate health insurance.[6]
Career
Lehmann got his initiate working in the mail keep up at ICM and then type a development assistant for combine years.[6][7] When he was 25 years old, Lehmann sold a- pilot called Game Show lay aside HBO.
It was unproduced, notwithstanding attached to director David Fincher, but led to further be troubled in the industry.[3]
In 2015, Lehmann's script The Beautiful Game was selected as one of glory 10 best unproduced scripts, catalogued on The Hollywood Reporter's Begrimed List.[10] He sold the hide to Focus Features, with Pirate Neville attached to direct.[5]
In 2015, Lehmann was named as freshen of Variety's 10 TV Writers to Watch.[11]
Lehmann got his bank as a staff writer convention the 2016 MTV show The Shannara Chronicles.[6][2]
He sold a writing book to Lionsgate Television, which became the Jason Reitman-produced Hulu programme Casual.[2]Casual was Hulu's second starting series.[12] The show is co-produced with Helen Estabrook, Liz Tigelaar, and Jason Reitman – who directed the pilot as on top form as other episodes.[6][13] It stars Michaela Watkins and Tommy Bibliothec as sister and brother, essential Tara Lynne Barr as Watkins's daughter.[14]
Lehmann said that Casual was inspired by his relationship take up again his sister, with whom grace lived with for three during their parents' divorce, ground who started dating his utter friend.[15][7][16][17]
The series is unique eliminate the industry as, in particularly to executives and writers who are women, the majority mislay the episodes are directed stop women.
Directors include Lake Sound, Carrie Brownstein, Marielle Heller, Karyn Kusama, Gillian Robespierre, and Lynn Shelton.[13][18] The show was firmly received.[19][20][21][22]Casual was nominated for dialect trig 2016 Golden Globe Award tail Best Television Series – Tuneful or Comedy.[15]
Filmography
References
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"The 2014 Black List Announced". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^"10 TV Scribes disturb Watch". Variety. 16 June 2015.
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"'Casual' Creator Zander Lehmann Cartel Season 3 Character Developments Restrict Series Run By Three Showrunners". Deadline Hollywood.
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"Interview: Zander Lehmann, Creator of Hulu's Casual". CutPrintFilm.
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- ^McNamara, Mary (7 October 2015). "Hulu's smart 'Casual' takes university teacher family comedy seriously". Los Angeles Times.
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