Background
Biderman grew up in Florida, and when she was sixteen, she attended boarding school at The Stockbridge School, in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, where she was very interested in the arts
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Career
Biderman adapted the novel Smilla"s Sense of Snow into the screenplay of the award-winning movie, which takes place in Copenhagen. In the 2008 to 2009 television season Biderman developed the police drama series which aired as a midseason replacement for National Broadcasting Company. The series focuses on patrol officers and detectives in South Los Los Angeles Biderman served as an executive producer for the first season alongside John Wells and Christopher Chulack.
Along with creating the series with the pilot episode Biderman wrote the episodes "Mozambique," "See the Woman," "Sally in the Alley" (with consulting producer Angela Amato Velez) and "Derailed." The series was renewed for a second season and Biderman remained an executive producer and writer
Six episodes were produced before National Broadcasting Company reversed the decision and cancelled. The series was then picked up by the TNT network and the produced episodes were aired as the second season.
Biderman co-wrote the season premiere "Phase Three" with Wells and wrote the episode "U-Boat." TNT renewed the series for a third season but dramatically reduced the production budget. Biderman stepped down as executive producer but remained an executive consultant.
She co-wrote the season premiere "Let lieutenant Snow" with Wells.
Biderman later created, produced, and wrote episodes for the Showtime series in 2013, which garnered high ratings and critical praise for the cable network. In August 2014, Biderman stepped down as showrunner foreign
