How To Die Alone

Vera Santamaria is an EmmyⓇ-nominated television and feature writer whose career spans multiple genres and two countries. She is executive producer and co-showrunner of “How to Die Alone,” an upcoming series for ABC Signature, Hulu and Onyx Collective starring co-showrunner and executive producer Natasha Rothwell.

Prior to this, she was executive producer and co-showrunner on Hulu’s much-lauded second season of “PEN15,” garnering a 2021 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy and a WGA Award nomination for Best Comedy. Vera’s other television credits include the critically acclaimed “Ms. Marvel,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Schitt’s Creek,” “BoJack Horseman,” “Playing House” and “Community.”

Born and raised in Toronto, Vera began her career writing for landmark Canadian shows such as “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” in addition to co-creating and executive producing the first North American television series to be centered on a South Asian family, “How To Be Indie.”

Vera signed an overall deal with ABC Signature in 2022. “How to Die Alone” is her first project under her deal and new production banner, Welcome Stranger.