Alumna J.D. Shields ‘18 has joined the team on a newly ordered ABC drama series, The Company You Keep starring and executive produced by Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us, Gilmore Girls). The series was previously ordered as a pilot for ABC’s 2022 pilot season slate, but has since proven to be exceptional and an entire season has been ordered.
Shields will serve as one of the writers on the series when the writers room officially opens up this Fall, and the series is set to debut at midseason in 2023.
The Company You Keep is based on a Korean television show titled My Fellow Citizens. The show chronicles the relationship between con-man Charlie (Ventimiglia) and undercover CIA officer (played by Catherine Haena Kim) who are unknowingly on a collision course.
Shields is a 2018 graduate of Columbia University with a MFA in Directing and Screenwriting. Since graduating, she’s developed projects with Emmy-nominated showrunner Leslye Headland and Marsai Martin's Genius Entertainment and has written for DreamWorks TV Animation, Wondery and Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2019, Shields won the HBO Access Writing Fellowship and is a 2022 participant of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women.
