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Becky Hartman Edwards is an American television producer and writer.

Hartman Edwards broke into comedy writing on the series The Sweet Life on the Comedy Channel starring Rachel Sweet and wrote alongside Michael Patrick King and Jon Stewart. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and began writing for In Living Color . She has written on numerous shows since then, including Living Single , The Larry Sanders Show , Sex and the City , American Dreams , Invasion , Life on Mars , Parenthood , Switched at Birth , The Astronaut Wives Club, Pitch, The Bold Type and The Baker and the Beauty. She developed a pilot for the USA network about a female modern-day Robin Hood. [1] Hartman Edwards has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and one Writers Guild Award. [2] She has also won a Television Critics Award and Peabody Award for her work on Switched at Birth and a Sentinel Award for her episode "The Deep End" on The Bold Type. [3] [4] Hartman Edwards is currently working on a half-hour series based on the life of Susan Savage, the owner of the Sacramento River Cats, starring and executive produced by Felicity Huffman. [5] [6]

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