Dahvi Waller

Who is Dahvi Waller?

Dahvi Waller is a Canadian writer and television director.

In 2003 and 2004 Waller was one of the directors for the reality TV show Switched Up, and in 2005 she became one of the writers of the short lived drama series Commander in Chief. The following year she joined the crew of Desperate Housewives as a staff writer, and for the third season of the show she joined Josh Senter and Jenna Bans as one of its story editors. Waller served as a co-producer on the first season of the ABC comedy–drama Eli Stone.

Waller joined the AMC drama series Mad Men in 2009 as a co-producer for the third season and was a producer for the series' fourth season. She won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season of Mad Men.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Harold Myron Waller, a Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and Diane Goodman, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Princeton University.