Beth Szymkowski created and executive produced both seasons of the Hulu teen-horror drama Freakish.  She’s currently developing a series with Westbrook Entertainment and has recently written projects for Snap and Nickelodeon. She’s written feature-length screenplays for Lionsgate, Disney and others, and created and executive produced all three seasons of AwesomenessTV’s first scripted show, Runaways, which was nominated for a Streamy Award for best drama in 2012. She then novelized the series for Dreamworks Publishing.

She started her professional storytelling career as a journalist in North Carolina after attending Duke University. She later worked for Gannett, winning a national award for investigative reporting. She taught math for journalists at University of Southern California before transitioning to screenplay writing.