Soo Hugh served as showrunner, creator, and executive producer behind the drama series PACHINKO which premiered on Apple TV+ in 2022 to critical acclaim. Based on the international best-selling novel. The show has won numerous awards including The Peabody, The Gotham Awards, and The Critics’ Choice Award.

Additionally, she is currently writing a spin off of the Monsterverse for Apple TV, an adaptation of a Robert Ludlum property as well as producing a slate of films for Media Res and A24.

She is also writing and directing an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s TENDER IS THE NIGHT for Searchlight Pictures, partnering with Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap and Keri and Lucy Putnam for Putnam Pictures.

Hugh was previously the co-showrunner for the critically-lauded first season of AMC’s THE TERROR, produced by Ridley Scott and starring Jared Harris, Ciarán Hinds, and Tobias Menzies. She also created THE WHISPERS for ABC, based on a Ray Bradbury short story and produced by Steven Spielberg, directed by Mark Romanek. The series was sold when Soo was a staff writer. Other television credits include writing on THE KILLING (AMC) and UNDER THE DOME (CBS). Hugh formerly had a multi-year overall deal with UCP to develop, write and produce projects. As part of the deal, she launched an incubator program, “The Thousand Miles Project” to help bring more AAPI stories to cinematic life and jumpstart fruitful careers in the entertainment industry.

She earned her BA from Yale University and her MFA from University of Southern California’s film school. Hugh lives in New York City.

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