Will Scheffer

Will Scheffer is an American playwright, and was co-creator and executive producer of the television series Big Love and the American remake of Getting On with longtime life partner Mark V. Olsen. He is President and CEO of Anima Sola Productions, which he founded with Olsen in 1992 to create television and film content. His writing credits include Big Love: In the Beginning, Ellis Island, Duck Town, Easter, In the Gloaming, The Pact, Citizen Baines, and Getting On. Life Family Scheffer's father, Ben, was a Holocaust survivor, who emigrated from the Netherlands through Ellis Island in 1941. His mother, Sandra, was the daughter of Jews who fled Russia in 1916.