Dahvi Waller

Dahvi Waller
Dahvi Waller
Occupation Television producer and writer
Nationality Canadian
Notable work(s) Mad Men

Dahvi Waller is a Canadian[1] screenwriter and television director, and currently writes and produces for the hit AMC series Mad Men.

In 2003 and 2004 Waller was one of the directors for the reality TV show Switched Up, and in 2005 she became one of the writers of the short lived drama series Commander in Chief. The following year she joined the crew of Desperate Housewives as a staff writer, and for the third season of the show she joined Josh Senter and Jenna Bans as one of its story editors.

She won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season of AMC drama Mad Men.[2][3]

Born in Montreal, Quebec,[1] the daughter of Harold Myron Waller, a Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and Diane Goodman,[4] she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Princeton University.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Dahvi Waller". The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society. http://www.viff.org/forum/speaker_dahviwaller.htm. "The Montreal native earned her B.A. in History from Princeton University" 
  2. ^ Gregg Mitchell & Sherry Goldman (2009). "2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516. Retrieved 2010-04-30. 
  3. ^ "Writers Guild Awards - 2010 Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. 2010. http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1517. Retrieved 2010-05-01. 
  4. ^ Elizabeth Lumley. Canadian Who's Who 2003. p. 1405. 

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