---
name: "Bekah Brunstetter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bekah-brunstetter"
fi1m_id: "bekah-brunstetter"
imdb_id: "nm3492555"
tmdb_id: 1514398
wikidata_id: "Q61968664"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "13 June 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-23T11:59:57.724374+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bekah Brunstetter

## Identity

Bekah Brunstetter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bekah-brunstetter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bekah-brunstetter
- **IMDb ID:** nm3492555
- **TMDB ID:** 1514398
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61968664
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekah_Brunstetter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61968664, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3492555/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1514398

Writer and producer. Born 13 June 1982 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 13 June 1982, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Colin McKenna](https://film.one/person/colin-mckenna.md), [Lila Neugebauer](https://film.one/person/lila-neugebauer.md), [Molly Smith Metzler](https://film.one/person/molly-smith-metzler.md), [Quyen Tran](https://film.one/person/quyen-tran.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 76 (1), 2020s 77 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 73 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekah_Brunstetter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61968664, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3492555/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1514398

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Maid*](https://film.one/tv/maid.md) (79), [*Sirens*](https://film.one/tv/sirens.md) (75)
- **Disney+:** [*This Is Us*](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bekah Brunstetter is an American playwright, screenwriter and television writer and producer. She was born on 13 June 1982 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA in dramatic writing from The New School.

Her television credits include writing for *Switched at Birth* (2011–2015) and *This Is Us* (2016–2019), on which she also served as producer, as well as writing and producing on *Maid* (2021). She wrote for the series *Sirens* (2025). Her stage work includes the play *The Cake* and the book for the musical *The Notebook* (2024). She has received Primetime Emmy nominations and Writers Guild of America awards and nominations.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, mtishows.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Sirens* (2025), Fi1m 75, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sirens.md)
- *Maid* (2021), Fi1m 79, Co-Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)
- *This Is Us* (2016), Fi1m 76, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Five Star Weekend* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Sirens* (2025), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/sirens.md)
- *A.D. 16* (2022), Writer
- *Maid* (2021), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)
- *The Secret: Dare to Dream* (2020), Screenplay, Screenstory
- *Again* (2017), Writer
- *This Is Us* (2016), series, Writer, Producer, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)
- *Guidance* (2015), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Switched at Birth* (2011), series, Writer
- *The All-Girl Filling Station*, Screenplay
- *The Fortunes of Jaded Women*, series, Adaptation

## Gallery

- ![Bekah Brunstetter](https://film.one/media/person/46444/gallery-84416dbed7c6.jpg) Bekah Brunstetter — HowlRound Theatre Commons, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Bekah_Brunstetter_at_18th_Annual_Pacific_Playwrights_Festival_in_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Bekah Brunstetter](https://film.one/media/person/46444/gallery-2abbf8dd04e2.jpg) Bekah Brunstetter — Image via TMDB

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