Feb 18th Online Event: Showrunner Susin Nielsen
Join us for a free online event featuring Family Law (Global/CW) creator and showrunner Susin Nielsen in conversation with fellow screenwriter Ken Craw.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
6pm Pacific
Online
Free Registration
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Susin Nielsen
Susin Nielsen is a multiple award-winning screenwriter and novelist who recently wrapped show-running the fourth season of her original hour-long comedy-drama series, Family Law. The show airs on Global in Canada, the CW in the US, and in markets around the world.
Susin got her start at a young age, penning 16 episodes of the worldwide hit Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High. She’s written over a hundred hours of TV on shows such as Cedar Cove, Heartland, Ready or Not and Braceface. She also co-created and was showrunner on the critically acclaimed comedy-drama, Robson Arms and the YA comedy, Alice, I Think. In 2023 she received the Writers Guild of Canada Showrunner Award in recognition of her unique vision, writing excellence, collaborative nature and outstanding leadership.
Nielsen is also the author of seven young adult novels. Her books have won the Governor General’s Literary Award, the UKLA award and over a dozen young readers’ choice awards. A number of her titles have been nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. In 2019, she was awarded the Writers’ Trust Vicki Metcalf Award for a body of work. Her books have been translated around the world. She recently sold her first adult novel, Snap, in a two-book deal to Harper Collins Canada. It hits the shelves in May 2025.
Ken Craw
Ken is a Writer/Co-Executive Producer on the Corus/CW series Family Law as well as Writer/Co-Executive Producer on the long-running CBC and Netflix ratings/views hit Heartland, yielding him multiple award nominations. He was also the showrunner on the CBC Gem series Hudson, has written for the successful series Sullivan’s Crossing, When Calls the Heart, Cedar Cove and the critically acclaimed CTV dramedy series Robson Arms. In addition to Ken’s work in scripted drama he is also a Canadian Screen Award-winning documentary-maker (Ben Johnson, Drugs & the Quest For Gold, Girls Don’t Fight, Chasing the Tango High).
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