Lucy Porter is a Los Angeles-based writer, comedian, and person with extraordinarily wide thumbs.
She holds an MFA in screenwriting from DePaul University and is a graduate of Second City's Comedy Studies program. A dynamic comedic voice with feminine flair, Lucy dazzles audiences across the country with her signature cabaret style of comedy, embracing original songs and auto-biographical storytelling. She can be seen performing regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade with the house team, Hard Launch.
As a screenwriter, her female-driven comedies have received notoriety placing in Screencraft’s Comedy Competition (2022), Final Draft’s Big Break (2022), as an official selection for SeriesFest’s Pitch-a-Thon (2023), and winning the 2024 PROOF film festival's Pitch Deck Show & Tell.
Her proof-of-concept pilot, BITS, premiered at SeriesFest in 2024, winning her the Outstanding Series Format Deck Award presented by Canva and the Someone to Watch Award for her “boldness of voice and cheeky blend of comedy and pathos.”
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SILVER SPOON
half-hour pilot
The dysfunctional family behind one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains must reconcile their egos and ignorance to maintain their declining breakfast food empire.
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ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID
feature
To counteract the massive debt accrued attending weddings in your twenties, a group of bridesmaids stage a heist at their friend’s destination wedding.
MINOR CHARACTERS
half-hour pilot
Gayle, once the life of the party, is facing the unsettling realization that she's "going bokeh" — literally fading out of focus as she ages. Desperate to reverse it, she teams up with Amy, a supportive best friend stuck in her own supporting role, to find a protagonist, any protagonist, to latch onto.
