[3] Biderman and her sister spent much of their youth in the company of writers, artists and musicians when living at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where "Leonard Cohen was the boy next door" and her mother Peggy Biderman's home in Miami was a sort of halfway house for civil rights activists recently out of prison.
Filmmaker Harry Everett Smith and poet Allen Ginsberg were close family friends.
[5] In the 2008-09 television season, Biderman developed the police drama series Southland, which aired as a midseason replacement for NBC.
[6] Biderman wrote the pilot episode, and served as an executive producer for the first season alongside John Wells and Christopher Chulack.
She wrote the episodes "Mozambique," "See the Woman," "Sally in the Alley" (with consulting producer Angela Amato Velez) and "Derailed."