Writer Mother Monster: Daria Polatin

(December 7, 2020) Writer Mother Monster: Interviews with Authoresses is an interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. Hosted by Lara Ehrlich, author of Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, 2020).

Daria Polatin is an award-winning playwright, TV writer-producer and author. Daria is currently developing a TV limited series based on her novel DEVIL IN OHIO for Netflix. She was a Co-Executive Producer on J.J. Abrams’ CASTLE ROCK for Hulu, where her episode “The Laughing Place” was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Best TV Episodes of 2019. She has been a Co-Executive Producer on HUNTERS (Amazon), and writer-producer on two seasons of JACK RYAN (Amazon), CONDOR (MGM/Direct TV), HEELS (Starz) and SHUT EYE (Hulu). As a playwright, Daria’s play PALMYRA will be presented at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, and her work has been produced at The Kennedy Center, in New York, London and Hong Kong. Born of Egyptian descent, Daria received her MFA from Columbia University and is a founding member of THE KILROYS, the advocacy group for gender equality in the American Theatre. She has one son who is 11 weeks old and she describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: stunning, shifting, softening.

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