Biography

Hemingson is a veteran television writer and the screenwriter and producer of The Holdovers, which was directed by Oscar winner Alexander Payne. The Holdovers earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture for 2023. Hemingson’s screenplay also earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won the National Board of Review’s Best Original Screenplay as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Original Screenplay. 

A Hollywood mainstay for nearly three decades, Hemingson’s television work includes an impressive range of writing and producing credits across single and multi-camera sitcoms, one-hour dramas, procedurals, young adult series, animation, and more. Among his television highlights, he created, executive produced and wrote the Fox comedy series, Kitchen Confidential, based on Anthony Bourdain’s memoir and starring Bradley Cooper. The pilot earned Hemingson a WGA Award nomination for Outstanding Episodic Comedy. He also wrote and produced series as diverse as Whiskey Cavalier, Just Shoot Me, American Dad, Family Guy, How I Met Your Mother, Black-ish, and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, among many others.  

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in West Hartford, Hemingson attended the Watkinson School in Hartford before going on to earn his BA in American Studies from Yale University and a law degree from Columbia University. After a brief tenure in the entertainment department of a prominent law firm, he transitioned to television writing full-time starting in 1995. He has been mentoring and teaching emerging writers through Netflix’s groundbreaking professional mentorship program, Storyhouse. 

Hemingson joins Bennington as faculty in the MFA in Screenwriting Low-Residency Program for Spring 2027.