Amalia Levari

Amalia Levari is a screenwriter and showrunner. She won an Emmy in 2015 for her writing on Cartoon Network's Over the Garden Wall, as well as the Eisner Award for a 5-issue comic book adaptation. She spent three years as a writer on Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks, for which she received a second Emmy nomination in 2017. Back to Backspace, her animated short for Cartoon Network, was nominated for a 2015 Annie Award (it lost to The Simpsons). Her recent writing credits include a stop-motion feature for Paramount, episodes of Netflix's Centaurworld, Adult Swim's Joe Pera Talks With You, and Cartoon Network's Summer Camp Island. Amalia has written and story-consulted at those studios, as well as Amazon, Apple+, Disney, and Dreamworks. She received a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. from CalArts, where she sometimes teaches screenwriting.