Courtney Lilly is an American television producer. He is the showrunner of '' Black-ish'', ''

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'', and '' Grown-ish''.

Biography

Lilly received his B.A. from

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in 1997 and worked as a journalist at ''Providence Journal-Bulletin'', before winning a Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship in 2000, kicking off his television writing career. He started his career as a writer for '' Arrested Development'' and has written for such shows as '' My Boys'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Lilly joined '' Black-ish'' as co-executive producer in season one before being promoted to executive producer and was named showrunner at the start of Season 6 in 2019. He was also named showrunner of ''Black-ish'' spinoff show ''

'' for Season 2. In 2017, Lilly signed an overall deal with ABC Signature and renewed it in 2020. In 2021, it was announced that Lilly will be writing and show-running an animated adaption of

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's book '' How to Be Black''. He became a co-showrunner of '' Grown-ish'' in 2022.

Awards and nominations

Lilly has been nominated for four

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for his work on Black-ish as co-executive producer and executive producer. He was also a two-time Writers Guild of America Awards nominee for his work on '' Everybody Hates Chris'' and '' Arrested Development''. He was also a co-recipient of a

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in 2015.

Personal life

Lilly is married to Miranda Banks, a professor of film and television at Loyola Marymount University. The couple lives in

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References

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