Meredith Stiehm

Meredith Stiehm (born 1969) is an American television producer and writer. She is the creator of the hit crime drama Cold Case and the FX thriller drama The Bridge. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.

Stiehm grew up in Santa Monica, California and graduated from Santa Monica High School and studied English and playwrighting at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), graduating in 1990. Her experiences in urban Philadelphia at UPenn and as a young woman in the entertainment industry provided much of the inspiration for Cold Case.

Stiehm has chiefly contributed to the television series Cold Case (as creator and show runner/head writer), ER, and NYPD Blue. She was nominated an Emmy Award in 1998 for "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series" on NYPD Blue. In 2004, Stiehm was one of five women at CBS who were in charge of a television series.

Although her later work exemplifies Stiehm's interest in high pressure, male-dominated environments, Stiehm got her start in the entertainment industry writing for Northern Exposure and, later, Beverly Hills, 90210.

In 2011, she joined the Showtime thriller Homeland as an executive producer, writing several episodes in the first two seasons.

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