Colette Burson is an American television writer, screenwriter, producer and director. She is the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the HBO television show, Hung. In 2021 she is adapting the best selling novel The Growing Season by Sarah Frey for ABC, as well as writing the limited series Love Canal for Showtime, directed by Patricia Arquette. Past work on shows includes Los Espookys for HBO and The Riches for FX. She is also the writer and director of the 2017 film Permanent.
Colette Burson
The Playwrights’ Collective Theater Company, circa 1998. From left to right: Tim Cunningham, Kate Robin, Colette Burson, Eduardo Machado, Jennifer Farber, Dmitry Lipkin
The Riches is an American drama television series which was originally broadcast from March 12, 2007, to April 29, 2008, on FX. The series stars Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as members of a family of Irish Travellers who "steal the American dream" by stealing the home and identities of a wealthy dead couple. The series received positive reviews but was cancelled after two seasons.
The Riches
The Malloys (clockwise from left): Dahlia, Cael, Di Di, Wayne, and Sam