Anne Cofell Saunders is an American television writer and producer.

Career

Anne Cofell Saunders graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and earned an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University. After teaching English in Japan and backpacking around the world, she started her TV career working on the

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series '' 24'' as an assistant and head researcher. On ''24'', Cofell Saunders wrote her first freelance TV episode. Shortly afterwards, she was hired as a staff writer on

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’s series

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, where she was nominated for a

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for her episode “Pegasus" and won a

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. Since then, Cofell Saunders worked as a writer/producer on Chuck and the final two seasons of

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. In 2013, Cofell Saunders won a

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for her work as Co-Executive Producer on NBC's ''Revolution'', which was named Best Network Television Series. She was Co-Executive Producer on Amazon's new hit show ''

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'', and recently, a Co-Executive Producer on the NBC series

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. She is currently working on her Sony pilot entitled ''Rollback''. Cofell Saunders resides in Los Angeles with her family.

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