185. MAOR

About this episode

Maor discusses her multicultural upbringing, journey into comedy, and her first TV writing credit.

A QUIRKY LATINA WRITER Maor shares her upbringing in Miami between Honduran and Moroccan Jewish cultures, discovering improv and comedy as a way to channel her outsider perspective, moving to Los Angeles after studying screenwriting at UCLA, surviving the pandemic and strikes while building a creative life in Hollywood, and how years of writing, collaboration, and persistence led to her first TV writing credit on Peacock's emerging creator series The Kouncil , Telemundo's first English-language series. Instagram - @lalistapodcast Music: Arriba Mami - Jingle Punks

People in this episode

Host: Rubén Mendive

Guest: Maor

Topics covered

• Latina writer
• improv
• comedy
• screenwriting
• Hollywood
• TV writing

Keywords

• Latina writer
• improv
• comedy
• screenwriting
• Hollywood
• The Kouncil
• Peacock
• Telemundo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UCLA, Peacock, Telemundo

Books & works: The Kouncil

Places: Miami, Honduran, Moroccan

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