Sarah Nolen is an accomplished television and film writer and producer. After getting her start writing on the Emmy-winning series, The Americans, she went on to work with David Goyer on Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation. She has continued to excel in the genre going on to work with with Scott Z. Burns on his climate fiction series, Extrapolations ; then AMC’s lunar utopia Moonhaven ; the highly anticipated Sisterhood of Dune about the origins of Frank Herbert’s iconic Bene Gesserit at HBO Max ; and most recently the adaptation of Hugh Howey’s Beacon 23 . She’s currently working on the newest installment of AMC’s post-apocalyptic saga The Walking Dead: Dead City . Sarah also wrote, directed and Executive Produced the Spotify sci-fi podcast Red Frontier, which premiered at Tribeca 2021.

After studying Film and English at Penn State University, Nolen spent time on both coasts in Los Angeles and Brooklyn building a body of work, finding her voice as a writer, and directing several independent short films. Her latest venture was a science fiction narrative shot in Berlin, The Horseman. Nolen valued the amazing experience of bringing the project to life with an international cast and crew.

Nolen credits much of her creativity to her experience being raised by wolves in Pennsylvania. Growing up in a household as the only female — with her two brothers and father — Nolen escaped to film and fiction to feel understood, which soon translated into her own original works to make sense of things. She hopes by having the strength and vulnerability to share these stories, that they may inspire other lone wolves trying to understand themselves.