Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Matthew López, the playwright behind the hit Broadway play The Inheritance, has signed an overall television deal with Amazon Studios.The streamer has signed up the writer, who also wrote on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom, to develop and create new projects.It is the latest overall deal for Amazon Studios, which in the last twelve months have signed up Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Steve McQueen, Gloria Calderon Kellett and Lena Waithe.López’s play The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, premiered at London’s Young Vic in 2018, transferred to the West End and opened on Broadway last year.
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