Veena Sud
Biography
Veena Cabreros-Sud (pronounced "Sood") is a Canadian-born American television writer, director, and producer. She is best known for developing the American television drama The Killing, which is based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen (The Crime).
After graduation, Sud directed MTV's The Real World before moving to Los Angeles, where she was hired as an episode writer for the short-lived 2002 television series Push, Nevada. Shortly afterward, Sud was hired as a writer for the CBS police drama Cold Case. After three seasons, she was promoted to executive producer, a role she served for the show's fourth and fifth seasons.
Sud went on to develop The Killing, a crime drama based on a popular Danish series. The series earned her an Emmy nomination and a Writers Guild of America award nomination.[9]
In 2018, Sud developed the limited series Seven Seconds, a Netflix crime drama inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, starring Regina King. The same year, Regina King won the Emmy for lead actress in a limited series for her performance in Seven Seconds.
In 2020, Sud developed The Stranger, a Quibi horror web series about an unassuming rideshare driver who is terrorized by her sociopathic passenger.
Sud was formerly the marketing and distribution director for Third World Newsreel, which specializes in films by and about people of color.
