Sarah Treem

Sarah Treem is an American TV writer-producer and playwright. She is the co-creator and showrunner of the Showtime drama The Affair, which won the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Drama Series, and was a writer and co-executive producer on the inaugural season of House of Cards, which was nominated for nine Golden Globes, including Outstanding Drama Series. She also wrote on all three seasons of the HBO series In Treatment. Early life Treem was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a mother who works as a consultant/angel investor and advisor to start-ups and to a father who is a pediatric gastroenterologist. She grew up in New Hampshire, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, and North Carolina with her parents and brother. Treem considers New Haven to be her home town. Treem has been writing from a very young age, beginning with poetry when she was eight years old. When she was twelve, Treem's first play won a young playwright contest and was staged in Connecticut. She continued to write throughout high school and college. Treem graduated high school from Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina in 1998. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 2002, where she was in the residential college Branford College, and a 2005 M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. During college, Treem interned at New Dramatists.