Debora Cahn is the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s critically acclaimed drama series The Diplomat, starring Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell. Cahn recently wrapped production on Season 2 in London, which will air on October 31.

Her previous credits include serving as writer and executive producer on the Showtime series Homeland, writer and producer of FX’s limited series Fosse/Verdon, writer of the HBO film Paterno, writer and co-executive producer of the HBO series Vinyl, and writer and producer on the ABC series Grey’s Anatomy. She began her career as a writer and producer on the NBC drama The West Wing.

Cahn was most recently nominated for a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe, Writers and Producers Guild of America Awards in the best drama series categories for her work on The Diplomat. She was also part of the writing staff that won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for The West Wing in 2003. In 2005, she won the Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama for The West Wing episode "The Supremes." She won a second Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Long Form Television Series for her work on Fosse/Verdon.