Susan McMartin

Susan McMartin is an American screenwriter and producer for film and television. She wrote the screenplay of the 2016 film Mr. Church, which is autobiographical. She also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2019 film After. Her television work includes Two and a Half Menand Mom. She also wrote the book Understanding the Fall. Mr. Church was written from her life experiences. Samuel L. Jackson was initially cast as the family friend and cook who helped raise her. McMartin worked as a writer and producer on the CBS television series Mom and as a writer for Two and a Half Men. A single mom, she recounted her financial struggles as an aspiring screenwriter in Hollywood. KCET interviewed her. In 2024, she was working with Chuck Lorre on a program for Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan McMartin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Two and a Half Men

A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

Release Date2003-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count3526

Regretting You

Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.

Release Date2025-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count207

Mom

Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.

Release Date2013-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count43

Vote Count617

Californication

A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

Release Date2007-08-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1224

After

Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

Release Date2019-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8451

Mr. Church

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

Release Date2016-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count500

Leanne

When her husband leaves her for another woman, a resilient Southern mom starts over with the support of her loving, but unfiltered family.

Release Date2025-07-31

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count16

Vote Count16

Son in Law

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.

Release Date1993-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count297

Gary Unmarried

A recently divorced couple shares custody of their two children while starting new relationships.

Release Date2008-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count42

Upper Cut

Follows Carrie White, known as the "First Lady of Hairdressing", whose glamorous facade, her world was in perpetual disarray.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart

The life story of R&B singer-songwriter and producer, Toni Braxton.

Release Date2016-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count25