Zander Lehmann

Alexander "Zander" Sutton Lehmann (born July 13, 1987) is the creator, writer, and producer of the TV show, Casual. Early life and education Lehmann was born into a Jewish family in Santa Monica, California, the son of director Michael Lehmann and Holland Sutton. He has a younger sister. Lehmann's family would relocate to the Bay Area and in 2005, he graduated from Marin Country Day School. In 2009, Lehmann graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was on a baseball scholarship, with a psychology degree. It was in college where Lehmann first took an interest in screenwriting, taking a class on the subject with the sole purpose of keeping his health insurance. Career Lehmann got his start working in the mail room at ICM and then as a development assistant for four years. When he was 25 years old, Lehmann sold a pilot called Game Show to HBO. It was unproduced, although attached to director David Fincher, but led to further work in the industry.