Maurissa Tancharoen

Maurissa Tancharoen is an American writer, producer, and actress. She is known for her work as the co-creator, show runner, and executive producer of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which aired on the ABC television network for 7 seasons from 2013 to 2020. She is from Los Angeles, California. Career Tancharoen has worked as an actor, writer, production assistant, showrunner, and executive producer in television and film. She began working as a production assistant under producer Mark Tinker on NYPD Blue and William M. Finkelstein on Brooklyn South. Along with brother Kevin Tancharoen, she co-executive produced of the series DanceLife in collaboration with Jennifer Lopez in 2007. She co-produced episodes of the Starz series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Spartacus: Vengeance. Tancharoen's first paid script came in 2001 when she sold Revolution Studios an untitled pitch in which two Asian American FBI agents investigate a gang in South Central Los Angeles by working undercover as Korean grocery store clerks. She was hired as a writer on the short-lived sitcom Oliver Beene in 2003.