Francesca Sloane

Francesca Sloane is an American screenwriter and producer. She is best known for co-creating the series Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Donald Glover, and as a writer and supervising producer on Atlanta.

Early life Francesca Sloane was raised in both Philadelphia and El Salvador. She received her undergraduate degree at California Institute of the Arts. Sloane then went on to study at UCLA for her master's degree, where her feature film screenplay, Headbangers, won a screenwriting competition.

Career Sloane began her screenwriting career in 2017 on the series StartUp, as the writer of the third episode of the second season, "Early Adopters".

In 2022, Sloane served as a supervising producer on another FX series, Donald Glover's Atlanta. She wrote three episodes; one in the third season ("The Big Payback") and two in the fourth and final season. ("Snipe Hunt" and "The Goof Who Sat By the Door"). Sloane began working on Atlanta from recommendation by writer Stephanie Robinson, who recommended her to Glover after they worked together on Fargo.

After working with Glover on Atlanta, he asked her to co-create the Amazon Prime Video series Mr. & Mrs. Smith with him and serve as the showrunner after Phoebe Waller-Bridge exited the project. On the series, she wrote six of the eight episodes. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which premiered in February 2024, is a reboot of the 2005 film of the same name. She planned to run the show for a second season, but during production delays, her overall deal with Amazon MGM Studios ended, and she went to HBO.

In September 2025, development of the third season of Big Little Lies was confirmed, with Sloane hired as executive producer and writer of the first episode.

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