Veena Sud created The Killing (AMC/Netflix) which was nominated for six Emmys, including for Sud’s writing, as well a WGA nomination for Best New Series. Her recent Emmy Award winning TV series, Seven Seconds (Netflix), is an ensemble drama centered on the hit and run of a young Black teenager by a white police officer. Sud’s feature film The Lie (Blumhouse), which she wrote and directed, premiered as a Gala at the Toronto International Film Festival and on Amazon in 2020. Her film/series hybrid, The Stranger debuted on Jeffrey Katzenberg’s ground breaking Quibi mobile platform in April 2020.

Sud was featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2011 Power Showrunners List and Variety’s Women’s Impact Report. She worked as a print and broadcast journalist in New York City, in film distribution at Third World Newsreel, and is an alumnus of New York University’s Graduate Film and Television program.

She is represented by William Morris Endeavor and Anonymous Content and her attorney is Bruce Gellman at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman and Newman.