Jennifer Joy Philbin (born August 30, 1974) is an American producer and screenwriter, best known for her work on the drama series ''

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'' She is the daughter of television stars

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Early life and education

Philbin was born in

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. She attended The Loomis-Chaffee School in

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, where she was a boarding student. She graduated from the

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in 1996. She has said that, growing up, she always wanted to be a writer of some sort, but she particularly enjoyed writing scripts for amateur short films she made with her friends.

Career

Philbin's career began soon after she graduated from the

in 1996 when she became a writer for ''

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'', and then joined the script department of ''

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'' until 1999. Philbin and the other ''Saturday Night Live'' writers were nominated for a

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in 2000 in the category of "Comedy/Variety Series". In 2002, she moved on to ''

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'', an

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drama series, as a writer, and in 2003 began work on the comedy-drama series ''

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'', for which she served as both writer and script supervisor for several episodes. She had a meeting with the executive producers of ''

'' in late 2003 and was keen for a job, but another job came up and so she worked shortly as story editor for the sitcom ''

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''. In 2004, she joined the ''O.C.'' crew after ''Coupling'' was canceled and ''The O.C.'''s producers offered her a writing position. In 2004, she served as story editor, but was promoted to executive story editor for the remainder of the show's duration, from 2005 to 2007, and during that time wrote 12 episodes and co-produced another four. Following ''The O.C.'''s end, she became a co-executive producer and writer on the first season of the science fiction drama ''

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''. In 2011, Philbin became a consulting producer on the TV series ''

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''. From 2018 to 2020, she was also co-creator and executive producer of the

sitcom ''

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''. In 2023, Philbin became a co-executive producer on the hit TV series ''

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''. She has also been credited with writing two episodes of the show's third and fourth seasons.

Personal life

While working on ''

'' in 1998, she met ''

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'' writer

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, who had also been hired to write for the show. They married in 2005. They have two children, born in 2008 and 2010.

References

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