Diana Son

Diana Miae Son is an American playwright, television producer, and writer. She is known for her work on American Crime, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Southland, and Blue Bloods. She, along with Brian Yorkey, has also served as the showrunner for 13 Reasons Why.

Early life Son was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Dover, Delaware, which Son has described as a very small town with very few Asian Americans. Son has an older brother, Grant Son. Son's mother came to the United States in 1963. Diane Venora starred in the lead role of Hamlet.

Son studied Dramatic Literature at New York University. When she was a senior in college she interned at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, an off-off Broadway theatre and cultural institution. For eight to 10 years, she wrote and produced short plays in the downtown area of Manhattan. The play was produced Off-Broadway in 1998 at The Public Theater in New York City. It was extended three times. The play's initial run featured Jessica Hecht, Saul Stein, Sandra Oh, Saundra McClain, Kevin Carroll, and Rick Holmes. Son met Oh—who has participated in readings of every play by Son since they met—in 1995 in Los Angeles while involved in the New Works Festival. The play features two women who kiss on the street, and are "grievously injured" in an attack.

In 2006, Son wrote Satellites, a play Sandra Oh starred in that was directed by Michael Greif at The Public Theater. She was Playwright in Residence at the Taper during the same period. She has also worked on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Southland, and Blue Bloods.

Recent work In March 2015, Son began work on the ABC series American Crime. At the 2015 TCAs, NBC ordered the pilot for Love is a Four Letter Word. It will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Red Arrow’s U.S. scripted arm, Fabrik Entertainment. Son will write and executive produce with Mikkel Bondesen and Kristen Campo.

Personal life Son has taught playwriting at Yale University and New York University. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Women in Theatre, and the Writers Guild of America, East. Son is an alumna of New Dramatists.

Son lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Son has said her parents are very supportive of her writing career.