Susannah Grant | Executive Producer | Fleishman Is In Trouble on FX

Susannah Grant is an Academy Award®-nominated writer, producer and director whose resume includes film, television and streaming platforms. 

In features, Grant wrote the screenplay for Erin Brockovich, which earned her an Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA nomination and a WGA Award nomination. Additional feature writing credits include screenplays for The Soloist, In Her Shoes, 28 Days, Ever After, Pocahontas, Charlotte’s Web and The 5th Wave. Grant wrote and directed the 2007 film Catch and Release and Lonely Planet, which will be released in 2023.

Her television credits include writing and executive producing HBO’s Confirmation, which earned Grant an Emmy® nomination, a WGA Award and the WGA’s Paul Selvin Award. Prior to that, she created and executive produced the CBS series A Gifted Man and worked as a producer and writer of the FOX series Party of Five, which was honored with a Golden Globe® Award and a Humanitas Prize.

Grant served as executive producer, showrunner, writer and director for Netflix’s eight-episode limited series Unbelievable, which was nominated for WGA, PGA, Golden Globe and Emmy Awards, and won a 2020 Peabody Award, Critics Choice Award, the PEN America Award for Television Excellence and AFI Award. She is currently executive producing Lessons in Chemistry for Apple TV+ with Brie Larson and Michael Costigan at Aggregate Films.