Meaghan Oppenheimer grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma and was a former child actor working in various regional theatre productions and television showsShe graduated from Holland Hall and then New York UniversityTisch School of the Arts in 2009 Afterward she relocated to Los Angeles to begin a screenwriting career In 2010 Oppenheimer wrote and starred in Hot Mess a film about two roommates that become friendswithbenefits She has written screenplays for a number of projects including Fear the Walking Dead She cowrote the screenplay for 2015s We Are Your Friends with film maker Max Joseph In December of that year ABC announced that Reese Witherspoon would be producing a new drama series for TV written by Oppenheimer with the working title Please Dont Go about the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas whose past continues to haunt her In March 2016 ABC announced that Penelope Ann Miller had been cast opposite T R Knight in the project that in 2016 was released as Brokena series pilot that halted production after the first episode aired In 2018 Oppenheimer penned the script for the Facebook Watch TV show Queen America She adapted Carola Loverings Tell Me Lies for Hulu that was filmed and released in 2022 She also served as coexecutive producer and showrunner of the series which starred Grace Van Patten and Jackson White