Marion Dayre
Biography
Marion Dayre (born Heather Williams), also known as Heather Marion, is an American television writer and producer. She is best known for her contributions to AMC's Better Call Saul (2015–2023) and as the creator and showrunner of the 2024 Disney+/Marvel miniseries Echo. For her work on Better Call Saul, she has been nominated for six Writers Guild of America Awards and awarded a Peabody Award.
In 2008, Dayre moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. She worked as an assistant to United States of Tara showrunner Jill Soloway and then as an assistant to actor Jeff Garlin, including on the sets of Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Goldbergs. With Garlin, she associate produced his 2013 film Dealin' with Idiots. Dayre also performed in sketch shows at Straitjacket Society and the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Dayre received her MFA in screenwriting from UCLA in 2013. With her original pilot script, Bury Me, based on her childhood in a funeral home, she took part in the 2014 Sundance Institute Writers Lab.
Dayre's big break was the AMC series Better Call Saul, which she joined in its inaugural season as a writers' assistant and rose in rank to executive story editor and writer. For the first two seasons (2015–2016), she worked as a writer's assistant and then script coordinator. She wrote her first episode with Vince Gilligan, the second season finale "Klick".
Dayre would go on to write the episodes "Slip" (S3, E9), "Talk" (S4, E4), and "Dedicado a Max" (S5, E5). Dayre also functioned as the fourth season's story editor (2018) and as executive story editor for the fifth season (2020).
In 2021, it was announced that Dayre would be the head writer of the Disney+ miniseries Echo, the tenth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and a spin-off from the 2021 series Hawkeye. The show was released in early 2024.
In February 2023, it was announced that Amazon would produce an animated television adaptation of the comic book Wytches, with co-showrunners Scott Snyder and Dayre.
Dayre also teaches television series development at San Francisco State University.
