CJ Hoke

CJ Hoke has written for SHRINKING (AppleTV+) and GENERAL HOSPITAL (ABC) and is the executive producer of the film AFTER WE'RE OVER (winner of the 2021 Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature at SLIFF). Her one-act play, PLAYGROUND GAMES, about a pinky promise gone awry, won Best Play (English) at the 2024 Short x Sweet Hollywood Festival, while another of her one-act plays, SNOW, about fictionalized archivists reassembling the tattered records of an impulsive President, won the Encore! Producers Award at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her comedy pilot HOOKERS won the 2022 JHRTS Script Competition for Best Half-Hour Pilot. Recent credits include WA and SC work on SHRINKING, AMERICAN GIGOLO, and BEST FOOT FORWARD.

A double-honors graduate of the University of Chicago (French Language & Literature / Theatre and Performance Studies), CJ writes women-driven comedies with heart, exploring the conflicts between who her characters are and who they believe themselves to be. She's a pun-loving team player with an extensive background in daytime drama, B+ monster movies, and playwriting, including multiple collaborations with LA-based Theatre Unleashed, where she co-wrote and produced the six-part comedy series CAMP RAGNAROK and currently runs the troupe's Writers' Den.

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