Karen Joseph Adcock

Executive Story Editor, Showtime/Hulu/FX
Formats Interested In
TV
Shorts
Particularly Interested In

Female driven broad and dark comedies; LGBTQIA+ stories; comedies from writers from fresh and/or marginalized identities

Women Writers
Writers of Color
LGBTQIA+ Writers
TV Formats
Half-Hour Pilots (single-cam)
One-Hour Pilots
Miniseries
Limited Series
TV Movies
TV Homes
Network
Cable
Premium Cable
Streaming
TV Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Horror
Sub-Genres
Animation (adult)
Animation (family-friendly)
Anthology
Biopic
Book Adaptation
Buddy
Coming-of-Age
Crime/True Crime
Dark Comedy
Documentary Adaptation
Episodic TV
Family-Friendly
Female-Driven
Graphic Novel Adaptation
High-Concept
Irreverent
Mockumentary
Road Trip
Romance
Satire
Serialized TV
Spoof
Suspense
True Story
Webseries
Workplace
Young Adult (YA)
Specifically Not Interested In

Slave narratives

More about Karen Joseph Adcock

Karen Joseph Adcock is a drama comedy writer who’s not like other Karens— she’s black! Karen grew up in a small town in Louisiana, has a BA in film studies from Columbia University and an MFA in TV Writing and Producing from Loyola Marymount University. Her most recent credits include FX’s THE BEAR, Showtimes' YELLOWJACKETS and Amazon Prime's SWARM. Her past work includes ATLANTA, HOW I MET YOUR FATHER and an unforgettable assistant stint on BOJACK HORSEMAN, UNDONE and TUCA & BERTIE. Karen writes about broken people doing the best they can and laughing along the way— because, what’s the saying? “Write what you know…”

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