Marion Dayre

Marion Dayre (born Heather Williams), also known as Heather Marion, is an American television writer and producer. She is best known for writing AMC's Better Call Saul (2015–2022), as the creator and showrunner of the 2024 Disney+/Marvel miniseries Echo and as the co-creator and co-showrunner of Amazon's upcoming Wytches. She has been nominated for four Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards and awarded a Peabody Award.

Early life Dayre grew up in rural Superior, Nebraska. In an interview with Forbes, Dayre shared, "I grew up in a funeral home in a 2,000-person town. My Dad, Uncle, and Grandpa are all funeral directors. In a small family business that means they do every job: from mowing to painting to sprinklers to driving the monument truck in the cemetery to handling floral arrangements to staffing funerals to the realer, more emotional stuff – moving with thousands of families through transformative experiences like grief and death and celebration of life. As early as grade school I started writing stories about birth and death and religion and spirituality and anatomy and miracles. I didn’t have words for it, but writing was one of my purest connections with higher power. Doing it for a living was the farthest thing from my mind."

As a teenager, she enjoyed creative writing and attended screenwriting workshops at the home of Lew Hunter. She graduated in 2005 with a BFA in English. Dayre would go on to write the episodes "Slip" (S3, E8), "Talk" (S4, E4), and "Dedicado a Max" (S5, E5). Dayre also functioned as the fourth season's story editor (2018) and as executive story editor for the fifth season (2020).

In 2021, it was announced Dayre would be head writer of the Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) miniseries, Echo. It is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and a spin-off from the 2021 series Hawkeye. The show was released in early 2024.

In February 2023, it was announced that Amazon would produce an animated television adaptation of the comic book Wytches, with co-showrunners Scott Snyder and Dayre.

Filmography

Films Year Title Role Notes 2013 Dealin' with Idiots Associate Producer

Television

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