Megan Halpern is a writer and producer working across film, television and audio, with a focus on championing original voices and emerging storytellers. She produced the feature DEBORAH, starring Sophia Bush, and co-created, co-wrote and executive produced the LAist podcast “Nobody Knows Anything.

” She is also the producer of craft podcast “Word by Word” with host Ed Solomon, and has multiple feature projects currently in development.

Halpern serves as Senior Vice President of The Black List, where she oversees strategic partnerships and the company’s film, television, and podcast slate. For more than a decade, she has led The Black List’s film and television labs, intensive craft workshops supporting emerging writers and helping launch careers. Alumni include Hannah McMechan and Danya Jimenez (K-POP DEMON HUNTERS), Noga Pnueli (MEET CUTE), Yvonne Hana Yi (MR. AND MRS. SMITH), and Zara Meerza (INDUSTRY).

In a previous literary life, she worked in publishing at Picador and Penguin Random House in New York. A recovering boarding school alum, she is a graduate of New York University and now lives in Los Angeles and London.

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