Becky Hartman Edwards
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Becky Hartman Edwards is an American television producer and writer.
She moved around the United States during her childhood and spent two years in Israel from 1974–1976. She earned her A.B. from Harvard University as a History Major and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Her senior thesis "Abandon The Creeping Meatball" was on the Yippies and their manipulation of mainstream media.
She broke into comedy writing on the series The Sweet Life on the Comedy Channel starring Rachel Sweet and wrote alongside Michael Patrick King and Jon Stewart. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and began writing for In Living Color. She has written on numerous shows since then, including Living Single, The Larry Sanders Show, Sex and the City, American Dreams, Invasion, Life on Mars, Parenthood, Switched at Birth and The Astronaut Wives Club. She developed a pilot for the USA network about a female modern-day Robin Hood.[1] Hartman Edwards has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and one Writers Guild Award.[2] She has also won a Television Critics Award and Peabody Award for her work on Switched at Birth.
In 1994, she married the artist JonMarc Edwards. They have two children Elijah and Gabrielle.
