Courtney Lilly is an American television producer. He is the showrunner of ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Biography

Lilly received his B.A. from

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in 1997 and worked as a journalist at ''Providence Journal-Bulletin'', before winning a Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship in 2000, kicking off his television writing career. He started his career as a writer for ''

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'' and has written for such shows as ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Lilly joined ''

'' as co-executive producer in season one before being promoted to executive producer and was named showrunner at the start of Season 6 in 2019. He was also named showrunner of ''Black-ish'' spinoff show ''

'' for Season 2. In 2017, Lilly signed an overall deal with

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and renewed it in 2020. In 2021, it was announced that Lilly will be writing and show-running an animated adaption of

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's book '' How to Be Black''. He became a co-showrunner of ''

'' in 2022.

Awards and nominations

Lilly has been nominated for four

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for his work on ''

'' as co-executive producer and executive producer. He was also a two-time

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nominee for his work on ''

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'' and ''

''. He was also a co-recipient of a

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in 2015.

Personal life

Lilly is married to Miranda Banks, a professor of film and television at

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. The couple lives in

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References

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