President, WGAE

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen is a TV writer, author and journalist. She is currently in an overall deal with Universal TV, under which she is developing several drama series. Lisa has developed drama pilots for Apple, Netflix, ABC, NBC, CBS, A&E and Warner Bros.; her pilot “The Ordained” was produced by CBS. She has served as co-executive producer on NBC’s “The Endgame” and consulting producer on “Law & Order: SVU,” and is a graduate of the WGAW Showrunner Training Program. Lisa works to represent marginalized writers as co-chair of the Committee for Inclusion and Equity and founder of the Salon network of affinity groups; she also started and runs Diverse Writers of the East, databases of underrepresented WGAE and Pre-WGA writers. For her service to the Guild, she was awarded the 2020 Richard B. Jablow Award. Previously she worked as a foreign correspondent and staff writer for TIME magazine, and has published two books.

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