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name: "Maggie Cohn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maggie-cohn"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T14:06:49.183693+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."
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# Maggie Cohn

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Cohn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111684729, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1891775/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2320650

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Staircase*](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md) (75)

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

## Biography

Maggie Cohn is an American screenwriter and producer. She graduated from Vassar College with degrees in political science and film.

Cohn has written episodes of *American Crime Story* (2016–2018), *Narcos: Mexico* (2018–2021), *The Staircase* (2022) and the film *Lou* (2022). She served as co-showrunner and executive producer on *The Staircase*. She won a Writers Guild of America Award for *American Crime Story* and was nominated for her work on *The Staircase*; she also received a Producers Guild of America Award for *American Crime Story*.

She is developing the limited series *The Challenger* for Amazon Prime Video.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Staircase* (2022), Fi1m 75, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Lou* (2022), Story, Screenplay
- *The Staircase* (2022), series, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md)
- *Narcos: Mexico* (2018), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *American Crime Story* (2016), series, Writer
- *The Challenger*, series, Writer, Creator

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