After getting my MFA, my first actual Hollywood job was on ABC's Grey's Anatomy.  I worked in the writers' room for the show's first three seasons.  Before the show ever aired, Shonda Rhimes put me in charge of all content on the show's official website, which, at the time, had nothing.  I used the site to expand the narrative of the TV show wherever possible, creating & editing "in-universe" blogs, games, podcasts, and more.  When the confines of ABC.com proved too limiting, I convinced the network to allow us to host content at special URLs that'd make the content easier to share and access.  

Social media wasn't nearly as pervasive back in the early days of the show as it is now, so I focused my efforts on blogging platforms which did have substantial reach.  I even convinced the entire writing staff to contribute to a writers' blog that would provide the audience with a direct conduit to the writers' room, the first such blog of its kind.  The show's blogs proved so popular, they garnered their own coverage.  

During my last season with the show, I received my first TV writing credit on the episode titled "Great Expectations." And thus began my TV writing career in earnest…

I then went to work in the writers' rooms of two comedies, back-to-back.  Though my official title on both was Script Coordinator, I wore several hats on each show, including taking charge of all social media efforts from each writers' room.  As member of the writers' room of each show, I also got to pitch stories and jokes.

For Comedy Central, I worked on Ugly Americans, a 1/2-hour animated sitcom that takes place in a fictional universe where NYC’s population consists of vampires, werewolves, zombies, sentient robots and many other fantastical creatures (all in addition to humans, of course). The show, executive produced by Daniel Powell (Inside Amy Schumer), deals with a government worker charged with helping these various “monster ethnic groups” integrate with the mainstream human population. In addition to my work in the LA-based writers office, the producers flew me to New York to help punch-up scripts during voice recording sessions with the east coast-based cast.

After Ugly Americans ended, I then went to work for State of Georgia, one of ABC Family's first half-hour comedies. Executive produced by sitcom veteran Kirk Rudell (Spin City) and best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes), the show dealt with a 20-something Southerner moving to NYC to pursue her dreams of Broadway stardom, despite having an “unconventional body type.” Raven-Symoné starred on the show. 

In between my work for Comedy Central and ABC Family, I worked as a consultant at the brand-new Amazon Studios, but due to a non-disclosure agreement, I'm still not sure I'm allowed to talk about what exactly I did for them.