Filipa Ioannou

Filipa Ioannou is a Cypriot American writer and stand-up comic. Before moving to LA, she worked as a journalist covering wildfires, murders and extremely petty crimes (think guy getting mugged for his laxatives) in the asbestos-filled newsrooms of various crumbling daily papers. After a mystery health scare left her briefly unable to walk, she was forced to get real about what she wanted from life, disappoint her immigrant father yet again and pursue her dream of writing for TV. She gravitates toward fish-out-of-water stories because of her experiences growing up queer with ADHD and an undiagnosed auditory processing disorder (triple threat!), and therefore having little to no idea what was going on around her for a while there. She loves to write joke-dense comedy and atmospheric mystery and horror. In 2021, she was an inaugural recipient of Cord Jefferson’s Susan M. Haas TV Writing Fellowship.