From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Hannah Friedman

American writer, producer, musician and director

Summary

American writer, producer, musician and director

Field	Value
imagesize	220px
birth_name	Hannah Friedman
birth_place	New York City, New York, U.S.
alma_mater	Yale University
occupation	{{flatlist
nationality	American
period	2004–present
genre	Non-fiction, young adult fiction
website

Writer
director
producer
musician

Hannah Friedman is an American writer, producer, musician and director.

She is known for writing and producing roles in film and television. Her writing has also been featured in Newsweek and Cosmopolitan. Her memoir, Everything Sucks, was published in 2009.

Friedman has worked as a feature writer on the Pixar Braintrust and at Disney Feature Animation. She is a co-executive producer for Willow on Disney+.

Early life and education

Friedman was born in New York City. She is the elder of two children born to singer-songwriter Dean Friedman. Hannah's mother trained monkeys. While in this job, she adopted a capuchin monkey named Amelia, who has lived with the family for almost thirty years.

Friedman studied theater at Yale.

Articles and books

In 2004 Friedman's article When Your Friends Become The Enemy was published in Newsweek Magazine. It described the difficulties of the college application process. Friedman remains one of the youngest people to have been published in Newsweek.

Friedman's debut book, Everything Sucks, was a teen memoir released by HCI Books in August 2009. Everything Sucks was reviewed on Salon.com, concluding, "Not only is Friedman's writing striking for its blunt, unromantic realism; her prose also displays a self-aware wit that is all too rare in the genre".

Performance

Friedman has made appearances on Comedy Central's This Is Not Happening (2016), Don’t Tell My Mother! (2016), The Moth (2017), Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp (2015) and I Do... Until I Don't (2017).

Musical career

Friedman is a musician and lyricist. She was a writer and co-composer with Benj Pasek, Mark Sonnenblick and Shaina Taub for StoryCourse's Saturday Night Seder.

Friedman wrote the script for My Silent Night, a musical, which premiered at the Salzburg State Theatre in 2018, a project with composer John Debney and songwriter Siedah Garrett.

In October 2009, Friedman was asked to perform at the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the National Coalition Against Censorship, a charity benefit gala hosted by Judy Blume. Friedman wrote and performed an original comedy song called "Party Like It's 1984".

References

(20 October 2020). "'Willow' Series a Go at Disney+".
"Trolls: The Beat Goes On!".
(31 August 2009). "Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool".
(30 November 2020). "'Willow': Erin Kellyman, Cailee Spaeny & Ellie Bamber Poised To Star In Disney+ Series". Deadline Hollywood.
(21 October 2020). "Disney+ to shoot Willow reboot in Wales next year".
(August 3, 2009). "Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in a High School Quest for Cool: Hannah Friedman: 9780757307751: Amazon.com: Books". Health Communications, Incorporated.
Friedman, Hannah. (2004). "When Your Friends Become the Enemy". Newsweek.
(August 5, 2009). "Prep school casualty - Salon.com". salon.com.
(28 June 2016). "Hannah Friedman - Monkey Sister - This Is Not Happening - Uncensored". Comedy Central.
(9 April 2020). "What Can You Do for People in Crisis? Put on a Seder Show".
(30 June 2020). "Songs From Virtual Passover 'Saturday Night Seder' Released for Charity".
(8 December 2018). "Silent Night turns 200: Celebrating a classic Christmas carol in Salzburg".
(15 December 2018). "A Song Is Celebrated: 200 Years Of "Silent Night"".
"35th Anniversary Celebration! -- NCAC".

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

living-people 21st-century-american-comedians 21st-century-american-jews 21st-century-american-screenwriters 21st-century-american-women-writers american-comedy-writers american-stand-up-comedians american-television-writers american-women-comedians memoirists-from-new-york-(state) american-women-screenwriters american-women-television-producers american-women-television-writers comedians-from-new-york-city jewish-american-comedy-writers jewish-american-comedians jewish-women-comedians jewish-american-screenwriters jewish-american-television-writers jewish-american-musicians screenwriters-from-new-york-(state) television-producers-from-new-york-city television-producers-from-new-york-(state) year-of-birth-missing-(living-people) yale-university-alumni jews-from-new-york-city jewish-american-women-writers jewish-women-musicians children's-and-family-emmy-award-winners

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Hannah Friedman — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report