LAUREN HOVEY & ERIC PASTORE
Comedy Writing Team
Comedy Writing Team
LAUREN & ERIC
Oh yeah, we have a website. Jealous?
Who?
Lauren Hovey & Eric Pastore are a comedy writing team based in Los Angeles. While they met in college, they represent different ends of the Gen-Z spectrum. Eric spent several years performing at UCB before going back to school, while Lauren, in her words, “did it the normal way.” Most recently, Lauren and Eric worked as staff writers for the scripted podcast company Pocket FM, where they drafted hundreds of episodes that spanned genres including comedy, sci-fi, and coming-of-age. Lauren and Eric’s high school revenge comedy, MONTE CRISTO HIGH, was a second rounder at the 2025 Austin Film Festival, placing higher than over 9,000 other projects. It also received semi-finalist placements in the Table Read My Screenplay and Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competitions, landing it in the top 5% of projects on Coverfly (RIP). When they’re not writing, Eric and Lauren can be found playing D&D, hosting poker nights, and getting their asses handed to them at the WeHo pickleball courts.
PROJECTS
You want 'em and we got 'em!
RUDOLF
UNDERGRAD
Pilot
A failed musician in his late 20s returns to college intent on living a more "realistic life," but his plans are thwarted when he is forcibly befriended by a 20 year-old girl who is just as determined to have the classic college experience as he is to avoid it.
MONTE CRISTO HIGH
MONTE CRISTO HIGH
MONTE CRISTO HIGH
Feature
5 years after his wrongful expulsion from middle school, a once-popular teenager dons a disguise to infiltrate the high school of his enemies and take his righteous revenge. It’s an epic tale of betrayal, vengeance, and amateur nose piercings.
WIZARD
SCHOOL
Wizard School
Pilot
This fly-on-the-wall mockumentary documents the day-to-day struggles of the faculty of the prestigious Ackley Academy of Sorcery and Sortilege, a school dedicated to teaching the next generation of magical teens to be responsible wizards – if they can keep their pants on long enough to learn a f**king spell.
CONTACT
Testimonials
"Like a two person flash mob"
- Joe Biden
"Not like other writing teams"
- Zooey Deschanel's Character in 500 Days of Summer
"A two-headed joke writing machine"
- That one tick whose bite makes you allergic to meat
"An unstoppable force"
- Eric's Mom
"I take it all back"
- Lauren and Eric's childhood bullies
"Strange and beguiling"
- Someone really said this about us!
"An incredible team"
- Eric's Dad
"Never ask me for a job"
- Anthony Jeselnik
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"I just want her to be happy"
- Lauren's Mom