Brad Falchuk

Brad Falchuk
Falchuk at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011
Born	(1971-03-01) March 1, 1971 (age 46)
Alma mater	Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Occupation	Screenwriter director producer
Years active	2001–present
Spouse(s)	Suzanne Bukinik (m. 1994–2013)
Partner(s)	Gwyneth Paltrow (2014–present)
Children	2

Brad Falchuk (born March 1, 1971) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is best known for co-creating with Ryan Murphy the comedy-drama television series Glee and the horror-drama anthology series American Horror Story and more recently Scream Queens. He was also a writer and executive producer for the television series Nip/Tuck.

Falchuk grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. His mother is Nancy Falchuk, the national president of the American Jewish women's organization Hadassah (as of 2007^[update]). He attended Beaver Country Day School. In high school, he tried to stand out from his classmates by wearing a tie to school each day and declaring himself a Republican. He said: "I was always trying to look smart because I didn't feel smart"; he actually suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia. In high school, he played baseball, basketball and lacrosse. He later attended the American Film Institute. He graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1993. Falchuk was the commencement speaker for Hobart and William Smith Colleges' 2014 graduating classes.

Falchuk's career in television began as a writer for Mutant X (2001), Earth: Final Conflict (2001–02) and Veritas: The Quest (2003), before he was hired to work on the first season of Nip/Tuck in 2003. While working on Nip/Tuck, he formed a close bond and partnership with the show's creator, Ryan Murphy. Falchuk and Murphy went on to write a television pilot titled Pretty/Handsome, about a transsexual gynecologist, which the FX network bought in 2008. However, the pilot was not picked up as a series.