Carol Hartsell

Carol Ray Hartsell is a writer, director, producer and editor based in New York City. Originally from Alabama, she doesn’t have much of an accent and she doesn’t know why so stop asking.

Carol recently made her feature film directing debut with the indie romcom “Love…Reconsidered” starring Sophie Von Haselberg, Colton Haynes and Javier Muñoz, set for release in 2023. She is currently developing a science-comedy show with BBC Studios and her pilot “Pro-Tem” was a semifinalist in the Golden Script Competition and a Second Rounder in the LaunchPad Pilot Competition. Her most recent script is the feature “Miracle on 74th Street,” a collaboration with her partner Sean Crespo and Jill Kargman (“Odd Mom Out”), based on Jill’s original pilot. Production is slated for 2024.

Previously, Carol was the Senior Field Producer on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Kids Tonight Show,” the Supervising Producer for Amazon’s “Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys,” the head writer on NBC pilot “The Whenever Show” starring Franchesca Ramsey and the creative lead behind “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s” award-winning digital team. She got her start in late night as the Digital Producer at “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” where she innovated their live-streaming content and wrote sketches for Adam McKay and Guillermo del Toro among others.

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