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Ann Donahue
Occupation(s)Screenwriting and television writer

Ann Donahue is a prominent television writer. She along with Carol Mendelsohn and Anthony E. Zuiker created the successful CSI franchise which includes CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, and CSI: Cyber. She served as the showrunner for CSI: Miami until May 2012 when CBS cancelled the show.[1] New long-term contracts in the fall of 2003 made Donahue and Mendelsohn "the two highest-paid female writers in television drama."[2]

Donahue's television credits include Emmy Award-winning scripts for the popular series Picket Fences.

Other television writing credits include China Beach, 21 Jump Street, Murder One, M.Y.O.B., High Incident, and Beverly Hills, 90210. Donahue has also written and produced a number of off-Broadway plays.

Donahue is an out lesbian.[3]

References

  1. ^ "CSI: Miami: Cancelled by CBS, No Season 11". TV Series Finale. May 13, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  2. ^ Weinraub, Bernard (October 19, 2003). "Respect, and $20 Million: Thank You, 'C.S.I.': For Two Female Writers, Hollywood Is No Longer the Scene of the Crime". The New York Times. p. AR 23. Retrieved January 5, 2021 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ Curve Magazine, "Take That! TV's Top 10 "Lesbian" Crime-Fighter Shows", Volume 13, Number 4 Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine