MY STORY

There is no better place for comedy than a suburban home in Sandy, Utah. In your typical Sandy home, you’ll find several name-inscribed Book of Mormons, extensive carpeting, and possibly, a funny kid in front of the TV. Comedy is a crime of opportunity. I learned timing the hard way at Sunday dinners. I learned that infidelity was funny to joke about at school dances, but not at your grandfather's funeral, and that it was too soon to joke about my sister's chunky highlights. Growing up as a nerdy little Mormon girl trying to find laughter and produce it, I discovered that comedy is the power of perspective. From building my fifth-grade dating life around The Mindy Project to Fleabag, which rescued me when I was a college freshman with a side part, TV has made me who I am because it challenged me to tell stories in a strange place. I know that out in the world, there are more funny kids in carpeted rooms for whom TV is more than just entertainment. It’s a ritual space. It is a place to take the way we see our worlds, all of the messy, complicated, painful bits of it, and create laughter. I want to help create projects that make kids like me tell stories.

 

In December, I wrote/performed in the Second City Comedy Studies Revue “Tuesday Best” where I spent a semester full-time working at SCTC. Through writing coverage as a script reader for The Chicago Comedy Film Festival, I learned to identify compelling morsels of stories and analyze them. As a writer-director on the CCTV “The Group Project,” I ran a writer’s room and transitioned from there onto a full-scale set production. I now work as a Development Intern at Mosaic Media Group in Los Angeles, where every day is about supporting the storyteller. 

 

Comedy is a crime of opportunity. But as my audience transformed from religiously driven canoeing trips to The Second City's mainstage, I’ve learned comedy is the power of opportunity. It is sacred to me that a kid with a complicated life can feel the power of their own story through the electricity of watching someone elses’ on a TV screen.