Biography
Marisa Tam is a television writer and producer. Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, she graduated from the University of Minnesota before moving to Los Angeles. She completed UCLA’s inaugural Professional Program in TV Writing and was selected for the 2015 CAPE New Writers Fellowship and the 2015–2016 NBC Writers on the Verge programme.
She joined the writing staff of The Blacklist in 2016, serving as a story editor and contributing teleplays and written-by credits through 2018. Tam has also written episodes of L.A.'s Finest (2019) and CSI: Vegas (2021), later working as a producer on the latter series as well as The Dead Girls Detective Agency.
