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Laura Beck

location-pin Los Angeles, California

School: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Expertise: TV & Movie Entertainment, Humor

Laura Beck

  • Professional humor writer for 15-plus years
  • Co-producer for Fox's The Great North
  • Writer for Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, the Cartoon Network and more
  • Former staffer at Jezebel and Cosmo

Experience

Laura Beck is a longtime humor writer who has worked for Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Lifetime and the Cartoon Network, and recently co-produced Fox's animated series The Great North. She is also an award-winning journalist and writer who has held staff positions at Jezebel and Cosmopolitan magazine, where she was a popular sex columnist writing about sexy things. Her humorous essays have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Esquire, Vice and more.

Education

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

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