PERI SEGEL

About

Peri Segel is a Chinese American comedy writer and director based in Los Angeles. As her last name implies, she will steal your fries on the beach.Peri is currently developing an original comedy series with DreamWorks Animation, a live-action comedy series with Guy Walks Into a Bar (Elf, Sully) and comedian Rebecca Kohler (Schitt's Creek), and an animated comedy series with Still Pictures.She is also directing an animated sci-fi romantic comedy feature film proof-of-concept, based on a screenplay she co-wrote through the AIA Production Lab.Previously, Peri was a writer on Disney’s Emmy-nominated series The Ghost and Molly McGee and Netflix and DreamWorks's Go, Dog. Go!. She also wrote on Nickelodeon's The Tiny Chef Show, Netflix's CoComelon Lane, and Nickelodeon's Paw Patrol.Peri was a member of the Rideback Rise Circle Cohort (2025, 2026) and Disney Apprentice Writing Program (2019-2021), and a finalist of the Sony Pictures Animation LENS Program (2023). Her web series, Strings Attached, won Best Comedy at the Los Angeles Film Awards and Best Web Series at Top Shorts (2018). She got her start as an intern in the writers' room of CBS's Blue Bloods.Outside of writing, Peri loves running, escape rooms, and board and card games. 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).

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