Zach Anner & Gillian Grassie

Zach Anner and Gillian Grassie dated for a while but broke up when they realized they were romantically incompatible; Zach had zero previous dating experience and Gillian hadn’t seen Dumb and Dumber.

Their first and much more fruitful creative collaboration was Zach’s memoir, If At Birth You Don’t Succeed, which they wrote over Google Docs and Skype across nine time zones while Gillian was living in Berlin and Zach was in Los Angeles. If At Birth You Don’t Succeed (2016, Henry Holt) received rave reviews, except from Zach’s hometown paper, The Buffalo News, which referred to it as “too much book.” It’s now being pared down to a TV series in partnership with Funny or Die.

Their knack for creating viral content and online collaborations with the likes of Xbox, Microsoft, BraunAbility, and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation have amassed over a hundred million views across social media platforms and helped change the conversation around disability.

As a writing team, they have worked on features at Netflix and most recently joined the writer’s room as co-producers for Apple TV’s new live-action family sitcom “Best Foot Forward.”