About

Ed McCarthy is a gay writer, storyteller, and producer whose short films have screened at festivals in more than twenty countries. A native New Yorker, Ed writes heartfelt family dramas and sci-fi for television (often with a queer slant) in which the supernatural helps make our messy human experience a little easier to embrace.

His vast industry experience spans development, production, and post-production, but most recently, he has worked in a variety of support staff roles on the TV dramas DARE ME, PAPER GIRLS, AZNBBGRL (pilot), and OFF CAMPUS, where he co-wrote an episode for its upcoming second season.

He has been a finalist for Film Independent’s Episodic Lab and the Producers Guild of America’s Make Your Mark film competition, and he has advanced in both the WB Writers’ Workshop and the Disney Writing Program. An accomplished live storyteller, Ed has performed on stages across Los Angeles. He is a Moth StorySLAM winner and has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour.

A career switcher, Ed previously worked as a high school English teacher, administrator, and debate coach at New York City’s LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the school that inspired the film and TV series FAME). In his spare time, you’ll find Ed either on tennis courts throughout Los Angeles playing the sport he loves or on the couch with his husband and their Boston Terrier, Boba, catching up on their favorite TV shows.

Ed earned his MFA in Creative Writing from American University. One of Ed’s life goals is to get Paula Abdul to read a piece of creative nonfiction he wrote about her. Click here to read it. Who can help him out?