Debora Cahn is the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s critically acclaimed drama series The Diplomat, starring Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell. Seasons 1 and 2 of the series are streaming on Netflix. She recently wrapped production on Season 3 and began writing Season 4. Previous credits include serving as writer and executive producer on the award-winning Showtime series Homeland, writer and producer of FX’s limited series Fosse/Verdon, writer of the HBO film Paterno, starring Al Pacino and directed by Barry Levinson, writer and co-executive producer of Martin Scorsese’s HBO series Vinyl and writer and producer on the ABC series Grey’s Anatomy. She began her career as a writer and producer on the landmark NBC drama The West Wing. Cahn was most recently nominated for the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild and Producers Guild Awards in the best drama series categories for The Diplomat. She was part of the writing staff that won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for The West Wing in 2003, and part of the writing staffs nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for The West Wing in 2006 and Grey's Anatomy in 2007. In 2005, she won the Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama for The West Wing episode "The Supremes." She won a second Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Long Form Television Series for her work on Fosse/Verdon.