Dahvi Waller | |
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| Education | Princeton University |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
Dahvi Waller is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer.[1] The recipient of aPrimetime Emmy Award and threeWriters Guild of America Awards, she is best known for her work on the television seriesMad Men and the television miniseriesMrs. America.
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Born inMontreal,Quebec,[1] the daughter of Harold Myron Waller, a professor of political science atMcGill University, and Diane Goodman,[2] she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history fromPrinceton University.[1]
From 2003 to 2004, Waller began working as one of the directors for thereality TV showSwitched Up!, which aired on ABC.
In 2005, Waller joined the writing staff of thedrama seriesCommander in Chief which aired for one 18 episode season from 2005 to 2006. She is credited for writing one episode with Anya Epstein.
From 2006 to 2008, she joined the crew ofDesperate Housewives as a staff writer, and for the third season of the show she joinedJosh Senter andJenna Bans on the show's team ofstory editors. She has writing credits on six episodes of the show.
She then served as a writer and co-producer on the ABC comedy–dramaEli Stone from 2008-2009 with two writing credits alongsideWendy Mericle.
Waller joined the AMC drama seriesMad Men in 2009 as a co-producer for the show's third season and was a producer for the series' fourth season. In addition to her role as a producer, she also wrote 2 episodes of the Emmy winning drama alongside show runner and creatorMatthew Weiner and one episode alongside Weiner and writerKater Gordon.
Waller and the show's writing staff theWriters Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Drama Series for their work onMad Men in 2010 and 2011.[3][4]
She shared the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2011 withMad Men's production team.
Waller was also among those nominated for aProducer's Guild Award (PGA) in 2011 for her work onMad Men.
Waller has worked as a supervising producer and co-executive producer on the AMC Original SeriesHalt and Catch Fire in 2014 and 2015. In 2020, she created the FX-on-Hulu miniseriesMrs. America, which had its series premiere on April 15.
She has written for the stage, with her one act playBetween Movements debuting in 2012 as part of an initiative calledUnscreened in conjunction with the Elephant Stages-Lillian Theatre inLos Angeles, California.
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
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| "First...Do No Harm" | 2005 | Writer, with Anya Epstein |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
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| "Thank You So Much" | 2006 | Writer | |
| "Sweetheart, I Have to Confess" | 2006 | Writer, withJosh Senter | |
| "Beautiful Girls" | 2006 | Writer, withSusan Nirah Jaffee | |
| "God, That's Good" | 2007 | Writer, with Josh Senter | |
| "Now I Know, Don't Be Scared" | 2007 | Writer, with Susan Nirah Jaffee | |
| "Opening Doors" | 2008 | Writer, with Jordon Nardino |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Humanitarian" | 2008 | Writer, with Wendy Mericle | |
| "Two Ministers" | 2008 | Writer, with Wendy Mericle |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| "My Old Kentucky Home" | 2009 | Writer, withMatthew Weiner | |
| "Wee Small Hours" | 2009 | Writer, with Matthew Weiner | |
| "The Beautiful Girls" | 2010 | Writer, with Matthew Weiner |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play With Friends | 2015 | Writer, with Christopher Cantwell andChristopher C. Rogers | |
| The 214's | 2014 | Writer, with Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers, Zach Whedon and Jamie Pachino | |
| Adventure | 2014 | Writer, with Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers and Jamie Pachino |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drop King | 2015 | Writer, with Adam Armus, Nora K Foster and Peter Horton |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. America | 2020 | Creator | Miniseries |
| Title | Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klara and the Sun | TBA | Writer | Film |
The Montreal native earned her B.A. in History from Princeton University
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