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Sarah Treem, born in Boston, is the only writer to have written and produced all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series, In Treatment, for which she won a Writer’s Guild of America award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. She is also a writer/producer for the Mark Wahlberg/Stephen Levinson produced HBO series, How To Make It In America, and is currently adapting Samantha Peale’s novel, The American Painter Emma Dial, for HBO with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff. In addition to The How and the Why, her full-length plays include Empty Sky; Against the Wall; Mirror, Mirror; A Feminine Ending; and Human Voices. Ms. Treem has been in residence at The Sundance Institute, The Ojai Playwriting Conference, The Screenwriters Colony, and the Yaddo Artists’ Colony. She has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Playwrights Horizons, and has been a Lark Playwrights’ Workshop fellow. Ms. Treem has taught playwriting at Yale University, where she earned her BA and MFA.
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SARAH TREEM (Playwright) is an American playwright. Her play The How and the Why premiered at the McCarter Theatre starring Mercedes Ruehl (with Emily Mann directing) and went on to productions at Interact Theatre and Trinity Repertory, among others. Her play A Feminine Ending premiered at Playwrights Horizons and went on to productions at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, among others. Sarah’s other plays include Empty Sky, Orphan Island, Human Voices and Mirror Mirror. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Southcoast Repertory and Manhattan Theatre Club and developed work at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Ojai Playwrights Festival, the Screenwriters Colony, Hedgebrook and Yaddo. In addition to her theater career, Sarah wrote and produced all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series In Treatment, for which she won a Writers Guild of America award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. She also was a writer/producer for the HBO series How to Make It in America and the Netflix series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey. Her pilot for T Television writer Sarah Treem’s work with Hagai Levi, adapting In Treatment for an American audience, led to their collaboration on the Golden Globe-winning The Affair. Treem graduated from Yale in 2002 and earned an MFA from Yale in 2005, interning at New Dramatists and writing a number of plays. In 2008 she landed a job as a writer on In Treatment, the American adaptation of Israeli writer Hagai Levi’s series about a therapist and his patients. Over the next three years, she worked her way up to co-producer on the show. After a brief stint as a writer and producer on House of Cards in 2013, she reconnected with Levi, who had served as her mentor, to create The Affair, a complex series in which the main characters have contradictory memories and perspectives of the same events. The pair won a Golden Globe for The Affair in 2014. Beyond her television work, Treem has continued to write plays, including Mirror, Mirror, The How and the Why, and When We Were Young and Unafraid. As of 2025, she is developi
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