Biography

Becky Mode is a New York-based playwright and television writer/producer. Becky's first play, Fully Committed, opened at the Vineyard Theatre in 1999 and ran Off-Broadway for a year and a half at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Time magazine named it one of the ten best plays of 2000, and since then it has been produced throughout the United States, with extended commercial runs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, London and Paris. The play has traveled to Finland, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Sweden, Estonia and Poland. In 2016, Fully Committed had a limited run on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and directed by Jason Moore. In television, Becky most recently worked as a co-executive producer on Hulu's Fleishman is in Trouble, Showtime's George and Tammy, starring Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon and Apple's Palm Royale, starring Kristen Wiig and Laura Dern. She also worked as a co-executive producer on Nat Geo's Genius: Aretha, starring Cynthia Erivo. Before that, she worked as a co-executive producer on Unbelievable, a limited series for Netflix, which won the PEN Award and was nominated for a WGA Award. She has created/executive produced the pilots of Four Stars (for CBS) and Until the Wedding and Born in Brooklyn (for ABC), and developed pilots for HBO and NBC. She has also worked as a consulting producer for Smash (NBC), A Gifted Man (CBS), Seal Team (CBS) and Feed the Beast (AMC) and as a writer on Cosby, Little Bill, Out of the Box, and HBO's A Little Curious. Before becoming a writer, Becky worked as an actor. She went to graduate school at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. Favorite roles include Ann the librarian in Daisy Mayer's cult classic Party Girl, Susan Walker in Anne Bogart's Once in a Lifetime, and the young Jane Seymour in A&E's I Remember You, opposite Clark Gregg and Daniel J. Travanti. She also spent many years waitressing, coat checking and taking phone reservations at some of New York's finest restaurants.
- IMDb mini biography by: Becky Mode