Bathsheba Doran
Bathsheba "Bash" Doran is a British-born playwright and TV scriptwriter living in New York City. Life. Doran, nicknamed "Bash", grew up in London and studied at Cambridge University. She was a contemporary of Robert Webb and David Mitchell and her first job as a professional writer was comedy sketch writing for their BBC2 show "Bruiser". She then worked for several years as a comedy writer, writing for shows like "Smack the Pony" and "TV to Go". In 2000, she moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia  University in 2003, and went on to become a playwriting fellow at Juilliard School. Doran's work has been developed by the O'Neill Playwriting Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club and Sundance Theatre Lab, among others. She helped Lear deBessonet with her play "transFigures", and has been commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company and Playwrights Horizons. Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found Peter Pan's shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realised that it was made of pantyhose. Her mother is the Elizabethan historian, Susan Doran. Doran 's play, "Kin", described as "exquisitely wrought" by the "New York Times", premiered at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons from 25 February – 3 April 2011, under the direction of Sam Gold. Her play "The Mystery of Love and Sex", directed by Sam Gold, opened at Lincoln Center in New York on 2 March 2015, was described as "perfectly wonderful" by the "New York Times". The play was subsequently produced at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and the Signature Theater, Arlington VA, among other national and international venues. She was nominated for a 2012 Writers Guild Award for her  work on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire". She also wrote episodes for season 2 of the NBC show "Smash". She was a writer and co-producer of season 2 of the Showtime show "Masters of Sex". She was co-executive producer and writer of Hulu's adaptation of "The Looming Tower". She co-wrote the Netflix feature film "Outlaw King", starring Chris Pine and directed by David Mackenzie. She created and wrote the upcoming Channel 4 show "Traitors" (originally named "Jerusalem"). She lives with her wife and two children in New York City.