Sarah Caplan was an Emmy Award-winning producer of television series and films.

Caplan earned a B.A. in philosophy from Bedford College, University of London and a Masters in South East Asian studies from SOAS, University of London. She moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s. She joined Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz’s Bedford Falls, producing the TV series Thirtysomething and the films “Glory,” “Legends of the Fall,” and “Dangerous Beauty.”

Caplan was hired by Steven Spielberg in 2000 to produce the TV series The Others, then went on to work for J.J. Abrams early in his career, beginning a fruitful partnership. She joined season 3 of Felicity as a line producer and went on to produce the pilot of Alias, Abrams' directing debut. She produced the next four seasons of Alias as well as the pilot for Lost, for which she won an Emmy. 

Caplan went on to produce five seasons of Brothers and Sisters. Her other credits include Political Animals, for which she was Emmy-nominated, and Ray Donovan. In 2015, Aline Brosh-McKenna and Rachel Bloom brought her on to produce the pilot of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and she went on to produce the full series.