Amy Sherman-Palladino

Amy Sherman-Palladino is the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Video Period comedy drama The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Career
Sherman-Palladino started out as a staff writer for the television show Roseanne from 1990 until she left in 1994. She went on to work on other sitcom and television shows such as Love and Marriage, Over the Top and Veronica's Closet.

Perhaps Sherman-Palladino's best know work is Gilmore Girls. She was the creator and executive producer from 2000-2007. In 2016 a four episode revival aired on Netflix. Her and husband Daniel Palladino wrote a large number of the episodes, were acting directors producers, and show runners for six of its seven year run.

In 2012 ABC Family picked up the pilot for Bunheads, starring Sutton Foster and Gilmore Girls star Kelly Bishop. The show aired for one season and was announced in July of 2013 there would not be a renewal for a second season.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
On June 6, 2016 it was reported that Amazon had ordered an hour-long pilot from Sherman-Palladino with the name The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, about a 1950s housewife who decides to become one of the first female stand-up comics.undefined On August 5, 2016 it was announced Rachel Brosnahan had been cast in the lead role as Miriam "Midge" Maisel.undefined Later Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle as Abe and Rose Weissman,undefined the parents of Miriam, as well as Michael Zegen as her husband, Joel Maisel.undefined On March 2, 2017, it was reported that Alex Borstein would be playing Susie Myerson.undefined The series was critically acclaimed being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Comedy.