Biography
Kurt Sutter is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actor. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, he graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in mass media and earned an MFA from Northern Illinois University. He worked in theatre and acting in New York before moving to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting.
Sutter joined the writing staff of the FX series The Shield (2002) in its first season and rose to executive producer. He created the FX series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), on which he also wrote, directed and performed, and later created its spin-off Mayans M.C. (2018). He wrote the 2015 film Southpaw.
