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Biography
Misha Green is an American television writer and producer, best known as creator and executive producer of the historical drama Underground.
Career
Green has previously been a staff writer for Heroes and Sons of Anarchy and a producer for Helix.
In 2016, together with fellow Heroes alumnus Joe Pokaski, Green created Underground, a period drama about the Underground Railroad, which takes place primarily in the Antebellum South and bordering free states of the North. The first season premiered on WGN America on March 9, 2016, and the show received an overwhelmingly positive critical response. On April 25, 2016, the network renewed Underground for a second season, which premiered on March 8, 2017. In 2020, Green wrote a supernatural horror show, Lovecraft Country, which was produced by Get Out director and writer Jordan Peele. Based on the novel of the same name, the series tackles race issues, set in the 1950s, while also utilizing elements of H.P. Lovecraft. The show has received a "straight-to-series" order from HBO. The series co-stars her Underground star, Jurnee Smollett-Bell.