Nell Scovell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nell Scovell
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Nov 8, 1960(1960-11-08)
Age	64
Birthplace	Newton
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Nell Scovell Biography

Nell Scovell is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on November 8, 1960 in Newton, United States. Nell Scovell, born Helen Vivian Scovell on November 8, 1960, is a producer and writer for television and magazines. Sabrina the Teenage Witch was created by her. It aired on ABC and The WB between 1996 and 2003.

After Letterman had admitted to having sexual relationships, his female staffers, she wrote an essay in Vanity Fair in 2009 calling Letterman’s show a “hostile workplace” for women. She pointed out that Letterman’s shows had only hired seven female writers over the past 27 years. Female writers have only racked up 17 years of staff time, while male writers spent 378 years in total. Scovell claimed that late-night TV executives exonerated gender inequalities in their writers rooms, claiming that women do not apply for writing jobs. She acknowledged that women did apply in a lower number than men but this was partially because the shows often rely upon current (white-male) writers to refer their funny (white-male) friends to become future (white-male) writers. She suggested targeted outreach to stand-up comedians, improv artists, and bloggers.

Spinning off her piece, the New York Times reported that three of the top late-night television shows — The Jay Leno Show, Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien — had no female writers (a fact which Scovell initially mentioned in her essay), in spite of the fact that women make a larger proportion of late-night audiences than men. The Times interviewed comedy writer Merrill Markoe, who mentioned an “odd shift toward more boys’ humor in the ’90s” that might have kept women from landing late-night jobs. Scovell tried to change comedy’s gender disparity by encouraging women to apply for jobs and matching them with executives and head writers. When Jimmy Kimmel began his show on ABC, she wrote a letter to ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney about the need for more women in late night. She was contacted by Molly McNearney, the head writer for the show, and passed along the names of two writers — Bess Kalb and Joelle Boucai — who were hired.

In 2018, Scovell’s book Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club was published with a foreword by Sheryl Sandberg.

Scovell was the second woman to be hired as a writer for Late Night With David Letterman. She was also the only woman on the Letterman staff at that time. After working for less than one year, she left the show in 1993.

Nell Scovell Net Worth

Nell Scovell is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nell Scovell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Nell Scovell is the middle child of five children. She grew up outside of Newton, Massachusetts in a Jewish household. Melvin E. Scovell is her father and chairman of Scovell & Schwager in Boston, a management company that provides health care services. She was the boy’s track team manager at Newton South High School in high school. Scovell studied at Harvard University. She spent her time editing and reporting on sports stories for The Harvard Crimson. She wrote for the Boston Globe’s sports desk during her senior year at Harvard. In 1982, she graduated cum laude at Harvard University.

She moved to New York after graduation and became the first Spy staff writer in 1986. Tina Brown hired her to work for Vanity Fair where she created quirky visual features about culture and money. Scovell met an old Spy editor who suggested she write for television.

Scovell co-wrote Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book Lean In.

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Nell Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Nell Scovell celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.