Courtney Lilly

Courtney Lilly is an American television producer. He is the showrunner of Black-ish, Mixed-ish, and Grown-ish.

Biography Lilly received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1997 and worked as a journalist at Providence Journal-Bulletin, before winning a Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship in 2000, kicking off his television writing career. He started his career as a writer for Arrested Development and has written for such shows as My Boys, The Cleveland Show and Undateable.

Lilly joined Black-ish as co-executive producer in season one before being promoted to executive producer and was named showrunner at the start of Season 6 in 2019. He was also named showrunner of Black-ish spinoff show Mixed-ish for Season 2.

In 2021, it was announced that Lilly will be writing and show-running an animated adaption of Baratunde Thurston's book How to Be Black.

He became a co-showrunner of Grown-ish in 2022.

Awards and nominations Lilly has been nominated for four Primetime Emmys for his work on Black-ish as co-executive producer and executive producer. He was also a two-time Writers Guild of America Awards nominee for his work on Everybody Hates Chris and Arrested Development.

He was also a co-recipient of a Peabody Award in 2015.

Personal life Lilly is married to Miranda Banks, a professor of film and television at Loyola Marymount University. The couple lives in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.