Biography
Hilary Bettis is an American playwright, screenwriter and producer. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she held the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship.
She wrote for the final two seasons of the FX series The Americans (2017–2018), serving as story editor and receiving a Writers Guild of America Award for Drama Series in 2019 (having been nominated the previous year). Bettis wrote an episode of and produced the Hulu miniseries The Dropout (2022). She has also written for Grand Army (2020) and the series Lucky (2026) and Dutton Ranch (2026).
Her plays include 72 Miles to Go..., a 2019 Blackburn Prize finalist that received an Off-Broadway production by Roundabout Theatre Company. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an alumna of the Sundance Institute Episodic TV Lab.
