EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has extended comedy writer and showrunner Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz‘s (Gordita Chronicles) overall deal, sources reveal to Deadline.
Under the new two-year pact, she will continue to develop scripted comedy series across cable and streaming as well as the possibility of exploring a drama which is where she began her career.
Most recently, she served as showrunner of The Gordita Chronicles, created by Claudia Forestieri, which you can currently stream on Hulu and Tubi. Before that, she was co-executive producer of the critically acclaimed comedy One Day at a Time for Sony Pictures Television and co-executive producer on the Max comedy anthology series Love Life, starring Anna Kendrick and William Jackson Harper. She recently wrote and directed the short film Some of US Watch The Sunset, Too.
Muñoz-Liebowitz started her career as a writer on the FOX/NBC series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Her other TV credits include co-executive producer on the Disney+ comedy Diary of a Future President for CBSTVS, supervising producer on the NBC comedy Abby’s for Universal Television, and supervising producer on TBS’ People Of Earth with Greg Daniels and Warner Horizon. She has also developed for Hulu with Berlanti Prods./WBTV and CBS/CBSTVS.
Muñoz-Liebowitz is a graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and has a Masters in Producing from Columbia University School of the Arts. At Columbia, she developed and produced the short film Cigarette Candy, which won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW.
She is represented by Industry Entertainment, WME and Gregg Gellman at Yorn, Levine.