Melanie Marnich is a Golden Globe-winning television writer-producer and playwright. She most recently served as the creator, showrunner and executive producer of Apples Never Fall, for Peacock. Prior to that, she was an executive producer on the FX drama, A Murder at the End of the World. She’s also served as co-executive producer on The OA for Netflix and The Affair on Showtime. She’s written for Big Love on HBO, Showtime’s The Big C, and for AMC’s Low Winter Sun and The Son. She’s currently developing projects for 20th Century Studios and AMC.
Her episode, “Come, Ye Saints” for Big Love earned a Writers’ Guild award nomination for best drama episode. It was also named Best Television Episode of 2009 by Entertainment Weekly, rated third in TIME Magazine’s list of 10 Best TV episodes of 2009, and ranked in TV Guide’s 100 Best Episodes of All Time. She received a Golden Globe for her work on The Affair.
An award-winning playwright, her work has been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Kennedy Center, Dallas Theater Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and The Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival. She is an alum of New Dramatists and serves on the Advisory Council of Humanitas.
