Jenji Kohan

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Jenji Leslie Kohan (born July 5, 1969) is an American television writer and producer.

She is best known as the creator of the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds and the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.

She has received nine Emmy Award nominations, winning one as supervising producer of the comedy series Tracey Takes On....

Early life

Kohan was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Rhea Kohan and Alan W. "Buz" Kohan. She is the youngest of three siblings; the other two are twins Jono and David. Much of the family is in show business:

Kohan's paternal grandparents were Charles Kohan, who was born in Romania in 1902, and May E. Charles, who was born in New York City, to parents from Russia. The two knew each other from childhood and grew up in a New York City settlement house on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Kohan says that her father was the "king of variety television in his day," writing and producing the Oscars and other variety shows. Her mother was a novelist.

Kohan grew up in Beverly Hills, California and graduated from Beverly Hills High School, in 1987. She first attended Brandeis University, then transferred to Columbia University as a sophomore, where she graduated, with a degree in English language and literature, in 1991.

Personal life

Kohan has three children. The oldest was her son Charlie, who died in a skiing accident on December 31, 2019; the middle child is her daughter Eliza, and the youngest is her son Oscar. They live in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Kohan and her family are practicing Jews of the Reform denomination.

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Career

Kohan's first job in the industry was with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, of which Kohan wrote one episode, and later said it was a "rough introduction" to the company. She collaborated with her brother, David Kohan, on a series of writing assignments for Will & Grace, including Mad About You, Tracey Takes On..., and Friends. The siblings appeared on CBS's sitcom The Stones, which was ultimately unprofitable. "David took the big, commercial, funny route," she explained, "I was always a little darker personally, not brilliant within the framework;" she revealed. "I had to make my own way."

Kohan was the creator of the Showtime dark comedy-drama television series Weeds, which she coproduced as showrunner and head writer at her writing company Tilted Productions in Los Angeles, California, during its entire eight seasons on airing.

Orange Is the New Black, Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black, a Netflix comedy drama about her experience in a minimum-security women's prison. Running the writer's room, which is located in Los Angeles, California, is Kohan's executive producing duties as showrunner and head writer. In New York, principal photography takes place.

Netflix, as a subscription service delivery model for TV and movie content, is unique in that it does not have ratings information, so Kohan is not aware of exact numbers for Orange Is the New Black, which has been described as the most watched original series on Netflix in a new distribution scheme in which binge viewing is enabled by full seasons of shows being made available at once.

Netflix has a Netflix contract with Kohan. She is now listed as Executive Producer of the Netflix series Teenage Bounty Hunters.

In Los Angeles, Kohan owns the historic Hayworth Theatre. One floor is used for production and two others for post-production. She intends to turn the auditorium into a venue for performances.

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