PERI SEGEL

About

Peri Segel is a Chinese-American and Jewish comedy writer from Massachusetts. As her last name implies, she will steal your fries on the beach.Peri is currently developing a live-action YA comedy series with Todd Komarnicki's production company, GUY WALKS INTO A BAR (Elf, Sully) with writing partner and comedian Rebecca Kohler (Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience). She is also developing an original animated comedy series with DREAMWORKS, and an animated comedy series with Stephen Davis's company, STILL PICTURES. In addition, Peri is a current member of Dan Lin's Rideback Rise Circle Cohort.Previously, Peri was a writer on two seasons of Disney’s Emmy-nominated series THE GHOST AND MOLLY MCGEE and season four of Netflix and DreamWorks’s GO DOG GO. She has been a freelance writer on multiple shows and written on TV and film development projects at the BBC, Netflix, Disney, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, and Baobab Studios.Peri was selected for the Disney Apprentice Writing Program (2019-2021), Unlock Her Potential Program (2020), and was a Finalist of the Sony Pictures Animation LENS Program (2023). In 2018, Peri's romantic comedy web series, Strings Attached won Best Comedy at the Los Angeles Film Awards and Best Web Series at Top Shorts Film Festival. She got her start as an intern on CBS's BLUE BLOODS and studied Film and TV at NYU Tisch with a minor in the Business of Entertainment from NYU Stern.When Peri is not writing, she loves to run, solve escape rooms, play board and card games, and watch Survivor. She even co-created a card game about evil babies who commit heists called HEIST, HEIST BABY. It may or may not be autobiographical (see below and decide for yourself).

Representation

Ross Siegel and Siobhan Murphy
e: ross@gotham-group.com, siobhan@gotham-group.com
p: (424) 363-1844, (424) 288-7326