Aaron Cooley(I)
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Aaron Cooley is a Norman Lear Sentinel Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner, and Creator of Showtime's event series The First Lady. The limited series garnered several award nominations, including three Emmy noms, numerous accolades for Michelle Pfeiffer's performance as Betty Ford, and recognition of Aaron himself by the Hollywood Critics Association as a nominee for best writing for television.
A graduate of Yale's Theatre Studies program, Aaron served as Head of Development for iconic director Joel Schumacher for more than a decade, while also writing screenplays and teleplays for companies such as Lionsgate, MGM, A Band Apart, Lorenzo di Bonaventura Productions and Winkler Films. In television, Aaron has created a scripted show for MTV, served as a staff writer at Netflix, and is now developing different limited series with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carnival Films, Skydance Sports, bestselling authors Christina Lauren and Connie Willis, and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Whitney).
Aaron's first novel Shaken, Not Stirred was named one of the Best Books of the Year by IndieReader.com. He went on to publish two others - Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court and The Guns of Ridgewood: A Western of Modern America. Aaron wrote his first audio drama, The Justice, with living legend James Patterson; Audible will release it in early 2024.
Aaron does most of his Zooms from the home he shares with Whitney and Beatrix ...who graciously put up with his whining over the Portland Trailblazers.
A graduate of Yale's Theatre Studies program, Aaron served as Head of Development for iconic director Joel Schumacher for more than a decade, while also writing screenplays and teleplays for companies such as Lionsgate, MGM, A Band Apart, Lorenzo di Bonaventura Productions and Winkler Films. In television, Aaron has created a scripted show for MTV, served as a staff writer at Netflix, and is now developing different limited series with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carnival Films, Skydance Sports, bestselling authors Christina Lauren and Connie Willis, and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Whitney).
Aaron's first novel Shaken, Not Stirred was named one of the Best Books of the Year by IndieReader.com. He went on to publish two others - Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court and The Guns of Ridgewood: A Western of Modern America. Aaron wrote his first audio drama, The Justice, with living legend James Patterson; Audible will release it in early 2024.
Aaron does most of his Zooms from the home he shares with Whitney and Beatrix ...who graciously put up with his whining over the Portland Trailblazers.
