Maggie Scudder (she/they) is a comedy writer, director, performer, and producer. They co-created and star in Rat Czar, an award-winning comedy about New York City's new Rat Czar, and wrote the award-winning pilot The GOAT, inspired by the city's legendary folk heroes. Maggie collects obscure obsessions and internet rabbit holes to turn them into TV.
They have spent more than 13 years writing, performing, and teaching sketch comedy and currently serve as the Creative Director at GOLD Comedy. They also write the popular Substack Bronze Age of Television, where they round up the best TV you've never heard of and publish occasional deep dives into niche topics like crime procedural cold opens.
They’ve read Arabic poetry with cabbies in New York, TikTok-ed their way into a board game collection that outgrew their apartment, blind tasted wine down to vineyard and vintage, and worked picking peaches at dawn. Maggie believes no skill or strange experience is wasted if it eventually becomes a joke.
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Maggie Scudder is a comedy writer, director, performer, and producer. Maggie is a decorated screenwriter and sketch comedian with multiple pilots in development.
They are the co-creator (with Ana Breton), writer, and star of a new web series about NYC’s new Rat Czar. Rat Czar is directed by four-time Emmy-nominee Ana Breton. The show features cameos by Rachel Dratch (SNL), Ashley Nicole Black (Black Lady Sketch Show, Ted Lasso, Shrinking), Ophira Eisenberg (NPR), and Countess Luann de Lesseps (Real Housewives of New York). After winning numerous awards and being featured in festivals all over the country, a full-length version of Rat Czar is currently being shopped to Networks and production companies.
Her award-winning pilot script, The GOAT, is being developed with Emmy and Peabody-winner Ryan Cunningham (Search Party, Broad City). The GOAT is a half-hour comedy based on real New York City folk heroes.
She has performed in and produced sold-out shows at The PIT (NYC), Improv Olympic (Chicago), Chicago Sketchfest, Chicago Womens Funny Festival, Stage 773, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, NYC Sketchfest, The Clubhouse (LA), and DC Sketchfest. With their sketch group girlparty, Maggie performs regularly at Caveat in NYC LES.
She is the Creative Director and an advisor for Digital Teams at GOLD Comedy—the online comedy school, content studio, and career network for women and nonbinary folks.