Biography
Meredith Averill is an American television writer and producer. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, she graduated from New York University with a degree in screenwriting.
She began her career as an assistant to television writer/producers André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, then wrote episodes of Samurai Girl (2008), Life on Mars (2008–09) and Happy Town (2010). Averill spent three years on The Good Wife (2009) as a writer and producer, advancing from story editor to producer. In 2013 she signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios and created the series Star-Crossed (2014).
Subsequent credits include work on Jane the Virgin, Pure Genius, The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Locke & Key (2020–2022), where she served as co-showrunner and developer. She has received Writers Guild of America Award nominations and won a Bram Stoker Award for the screenplay of an episode of The Haunting of Hill House.
