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This has been a passion project for numerous years now. I have worked in television for 11 years and have read hundreds of scripts. This idea came to me three years ago after I got a promotion at my dream job, but it didn’t seem to matter because I was single. After talking to countless women about this, it seemed almost all of them had a shared experience in their own unique ways. I started the script as a woman who felt lonely and isolated post-pandemic living in New York City. Page by page, I eventually changed the idea to celebrate the woman for all her accomplishments-making the people around her the “bad guys.” Once I started writing this, I couldn’t stop; I had so many ideas running through my head on how to make the main character super dynamic while bringing in real world problems with a whole lot of comedy.
Biography
Emily Potthast is a Peabody Award-winning Producer at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. After graduating from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Emily landed a job as an NBC East Coast Page where she worked in production at “TODAY,” MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” and NBC Entertainment. She then held various production positions at NBC and CBS News before moving to CBS Entertainment.
Emily performed stand-up comedy all over New York City. She held multiple residencies at Broadway Comedy Club and has performed at The Comic Strip Live and Gotham Comedy Club. In 2024, she was selected to perform at The Ladies Room Comedy Festival.
"In the Wrong Lane" was selected to the Houston Comedy Film Festival and as an honorable mention select at The Big Apple Film Festival.