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Hulu's Pen15 is coming to an end. The youth-skewing comedy drama will end with the second half of Season 2, which will debut on the streamer on December 3. The news emerged in a long profile of creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle in the New Yorker. The pair said that they always envisioned the series as three…

“We knew that we wanted to write a show about the most kind of reject-y moments of our lives," Pen15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle said of the initial inspiration she, co-star Maya Erskine and executive producer Sam Zvibleman had for Hulu’s middle school-set series. "We wanted to be able to play those characters…

Hulu’s Pen15 is coloring outside the lines with a new animated special to be released on August 27 as part of its season 2 part 2 rollout. Episode 208 titled “Jacuzzi,” follows Anna (Anna Konkle) and Maya (Maya Erskine) as they go on a vacation to Florida with their families that leave them with new crippling…

The next in Deadline’s It Stars On the Page series is Hulu’s Pen15, an ode to and examination of middle school awkwardness from co-creators Maya Erksine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman. It Starts On the Page is a series that highlights the scripts serve as the creative backbone of the now-underway TV awards season…

Right out of the gate, the Hulu series Pen15 made noise, and not just for its title. The show was created by Anna Konkle, her best friend and writing and acting partner Maya Erskine and Sam Zviberman, who directs most of the episodes. Konkle and Erskine, who met in a theater class in Amsterdam, play 13-year-old…

As production designer of the Hulu series PEN15, Grace Alie didn't need to go far for research and inspiration. Along with a crew that also grew up in the early 2000s, Alie was able to work off their personal experiences to recreate their childhoods. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle created and star in this cringe comedy…

In Hulu’s Pen15, real-life BFFs Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves at the turn of the 21st century. Amidst the Y2K era of AOL Instant Messenger chatting, gel pens and Tamagotchi keychains, the TV versions of Maya and Anna must navigate one of the most awkward and painful moments of…

EXCLUSIVE: PEN15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle’s latest memoir The Sane One has landed at Random House in a highly competitive situation. In the book she tells the story of growing up in a dysfunctional household, with parents who were separated but chose to remain living under the same roof on opposite sides of the…

Hulu’s Pen15 is an opus to that era in middle school when all of us were just awkwardly navigating our raging hormones while feeling like an outcast. The “traumedy” returns for a second season September 18 and the show’s creators and stars Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine took to the virtual stage after premiering the…

Hulu’s coming-of-age comedy PEN15 won its first major award tonight, but the creators/stars/executive producers were not on hand to receive it. “Gotham Awards, thank you!,” co-creator, star and exec producer Anna Konkle wrote on Twitter Monday night after PEN15 was named winner for Breakthrough Series – Short Form…

Hulu has ordered second seasons of its freshman comedies Pen15 and Ramy. The news comes two weeks after the streamer renewed its other rookie sitcom, Shrill. Set for a 14-episode Season 2, Pen15 is described as “middle school as it actually happened.” The series from AwesomenessTV is co-written, created by and stars…

Being 13 years old in junior high is one of the most awkward and eye-opening times in one’s life, and the Hulu series Pen15 paints a beautifully cringe-worthy picture of the formative time. Created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman, the prepubescent comedy takes place in 2000 during the TRL era of delia’s…