Georgia Jeffries

Georgia Jeffries is a writer of Emmy Award-winning drama and acclaimed noir fiction who has been honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards, Golden Globes, and the Humanitas Prize. Her  screenplays have been acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “devastating, standing ovation television.”

Born in the Illinois heartland, she worked as a journalist for American Film before writing and producing the groundbreaking female-driven dramas Cagney & Lacey, China Beach, and Sisters.  Her screenwriting career has been distinguished by extensive field research, from patrolling the mean streets of Rampart with the LAPD to crashing a Vegas bounty hunters’ convention to reporting from a Walter Reed Army Hospital surgical bay. Each investigation was the basis for one of her many docudramas and series pilots for CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO, and Showtime.

Her short stories have appeared in national suspense anthologies, including Mystery Writers of America’s Odd Partners and Sisters in Crime’s The Last Resort. She has also written biography and historical profiles for HuffPost, Los Angeles Review of Books, and University of California Press.

A cum laude UCLA graduate, Jeffries is a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she created the first BFA Television Thesis program at an American university.