Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes is an award-winning television creator, producer and author, as well as the CEO of the global media company, Shondaland. Rhimes is the first woman to create three television dramas - “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice” and “Scandal” - that have achieved the 100 episode milestone. For five TV seasons, award-winning Shondaland shows “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How To Get Away With Murder” occupied ABC’s entire Thursday night schedule, creating a powerful brand well-known to fans and advertisers as TGIT.

In 2017, Rhimes shifted the entertainment industry’s business model when she left network television to exclusively produce streaming content in partnership with Netflix. “Bridgerton,” Shondaland’s first scripted series with the streamer, has become a worldwide franchise. Seasons of “Bridgerton” as well as the prequel series “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” currently hold three of the ten top spots among English language programming for Netflix. Rhimes also scripted the popular limited series “Inventing Anna” based on the popular New York Magazine article about the fake German heiress, Anna Delvey and executive produced the documentary “Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker,” highlighting the legendary choreographer, Debbie Allen.

Rhimes broadened her company’s content landscape when she launched the culture website Shondaland.com in partnership with Hearst Digital Media as well as Shondaland Audio in partnership with iHeart Radio. She’s a New York Times best-selling author for her memoir Year of Yes and has built multi-platform partnerships with such leading brands as Dove, Peloton, St. John, Masterclass, Microsoft and Mattel.

Rhimes’ has three times been included in the TIME 100 list of most influential people and her work has been celebrated with numerous awards including induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.