BY: LIANNA CARRERA

I created this show because with the success of shows like OITNB, Transparent and Girls, America was learning the greatest life lessons in the least expected places. That, and there’s rarely a three-dimensional representation of boyish women who look like me on television.

When I started digging, I realized, what does boyish even mean anyway?  In a day where each of us is so much more than our perceived labels, I wanted to write a show that was as thoughtful as it is hilarious, with characters who fall outside the same old stereotypical archetypes, with layers just like you or me. 

And just like the characters in Boyish, I wanted to show meaningful friendships in the real world that cross lines of personal politics, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and more. We not only learn from them, we thrive on them, and our characters should too.

Boyish — where it applies — was not a coming-out story. It is post all of that. It is a story that catches up to androgynous women and their friends from varying backgrounds ten, fifteen years later, gay or straight, purple or blue - after whatever it was that we were so sure of in our 20s. A group of unconventional and newly 30somethings who have one thing in common: being nowhere near where our parents were at our age and the tiny insurmountable fear of dying tomorrow and having nothing to show for it.

Best,

Lianna Carrera
Stand-Up Comedian
Creator, Executive Producer