Audrey Kaufman writes satirical, character-driven narratives with irreverent female leads. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley and attended college in the Pacific Northwest, where she won multiple scholarships for her writing and received a B.A. in Political Theory.  She was selected for the 2017 HBO Access Writing Fellowship on the day of her college graduation. Upon the fellowship’s conclusion, she co-founded Tiny Girl Productions—an independent production company aiming to tell the often-untold stories of young women—under which she co-wrote, directed, produced, and starred in an original half-hour comedy pilot titled Idle Hands. Her work often explores complicated women, ambition, and conflicting feminist narratives. She currently lives in the Hollywood Hills in an apartment with a gorgeous view of the 101 Freeway.

SCRIPTS

CONFIDENCE, half-hour comedy pilot and abridged pilot presentation (currently optioned by HBO)
In this satire of the tech industry, an ambitious young woman founds a fraudulent start-up, promising a technology that does not—and WILL NOT—ever exist.

COSTARS, half-hour comedy pilot
Two creative partners who’ve gone in completely different directions are forced to reunite when their careers are at a standstill and they find themselves with an opportunity that’s too good to pass up.

CLOUT, half-hour comedy pilot
After an influencer’s suicide attempt garners national attention, she struggles to make her life appear aspirational again.

THE MORNING AFTER, short film in pre-production
While a young Hollywood actress waits to have her rape kit processed, tensions arise between her and her supportive best friend.

IDLE HANDS (2018), co-written with Dana Donnelly, digital half-hour comedy pilot. Available to stream on Vimeo.
Postgrads Audrey and Dana have moved back in with their parents and they want to move out, but they do NOT want to get jobs. In this pilot episode, they begin attending breast cancer support groups in Calabasas in order to meet rich soon-to-be widowers.

UP AND COMING, co-written with Dana Donnelly, half-hour comedy pilot developed in the HBO Access Fellowship.
A dysfunctional mother and daughter suffer foreclosure on their home and are forced to move in with their wealthy relatives who are the “perfect family.”

DEADSTOCK, co-written with Dana Donnelly, half-hour comedy pilot.
In this mockumentary half-hour, a young slacker gets a job at a luxury vintage clothes store in Los Angeles. But the store’s megalomanic owner intent on having her own TV series and a cute-but-incompetent assistant manager turn out to be more work than the minimum wage is worth.

OTHER WORK

Email Subject Heading from the Democratic National Committee or Text from an Emotionally Immature Friend? on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 11/05/2015