Sarah Treem
Nathan Sanders
Updated on March 13, 2026
Treem in 2015, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Sarah Anne Treem
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 22, 1980
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other
Sarah Treem is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. She is the co-creator and showrunner of the show The Affair.
She has two children with her former husband, screenwriter and producer Jay Carson.
Sarah’s maternal grandmother is named Bena Shaw. Bena has Hungarian Jewish ancestry.
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