Alumnae
HAARTS 2025

CJ Hoke ’09

FREELANCE WRITER/SCRIPT COORDINATOR
Warner Bros. Television
Los Angeles, California
 
CJ Hoke '09 has written for Shrinking on AppleTV+ and General Hospital on ABC, and she is the executive producer of the film After We’re Over, which won the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature at SLIFF in 2021.
 
Her one-act play, Playground Games, about a pinky promise gone awry, won Best Play (English) at the 2024 Short x Sweet Hollywood Festival. Additionally, her one-act play, Snow, which is 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 JHRTS Script Competition for Best Half-Hour Pilot in 2022.
 
A double-honors graduate of the University of Chicago with degrees in French Language & Literature and 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.

 
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