Alina Oraon,” “Mimi’s Got the Look,” and “The Dream Team.”

In 2005, at the behest of The Ringer, she appeared in the Sundance Prize–winning documentary series “Kung Fu Hustle.”

Prior to producing her current work, she was at the helm of TV’s “Jane the Virgin,” and was also head writer for “The Big Bang Theory,” “Arrested Development,” “The Mindy Project,” and “Fringe.”

She also wrote the screenplay for “Empire State of Mind,” whose writer Jeff Pinkner received two Hugos last year. She also wrote scripts for the independent horror film “Coneheads” and “Dead of Winter.”

Reed grew up in Michigan — her father, a professor of English, is a native Michiganite — and attended Cornell University, where she studied film production and made her acting debut in “The Last Witch Hunter.” She later found work in theater, as well. She was a member of Chicago’s improv comedy group The Freelancers, and for eight years, she was the acting coach on the sketch comedy show “The Sarah Silverman Program.” When she took a gap year, in 2005, she attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, working on movies for director J.J. Abrams and a film called “Killing Them Softly,” which received a Best Script award at Sundance.

Reed is currently working on her next film, “Kundu.” It features a black Ugandan-American lead, and it plays out in Uganda first, then the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The director told The Hollywood Reporter last year that the film’s story is “an examination of African American culture in a different dimension — a black African American culture.” Reed is writing the film in conjunction with her own experiences being a Black female Ugandan immigrant in New Zealand while working on TV’s “EastEnders.” She also collaborated with the director, Ian Thorpe, at a New Zealand Writers’ Conference.

Reed also is the author of three books, including “The Little Red Book,” “An American Family History” (edited by Chris Martin) and “All That’s Left to Do,” a collection of short stories. She is currently a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute’s Freedom Center and a regular contributor to the NYRB’s “The Daily Beast.” She lives in