Becky Mode
- Producer
- Writer
- Actress
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 Mrs. American Pie, 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.
She is currently developing the limited series Finding Fernanda for Lionsgate, from the book by Erin Siegal McIntyre. 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. Becky lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and their two children.me of New York's finest restaurants.
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 Mrs. American Pie, 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.
She is currently developing the limited series Finding Fernanda for Lionsgate, from the book by Erin Siegal McIntyre. 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. Becky lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and their two children.me of New York's finest restaurants.