Joanna Calo


Joanna Calo is an American writer, director and producer. The showrunner of The Bear, her credits as a writer and executive producer include the television series Hacks, ''BoJack Horseman and The Baby-Sitters Club. She co-wrote the 2025 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thunderbolts*''.
Calo has won a Primetime Emmy Award, three Writers Guild of America Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Producers Guild Award.
She and her husband have two children. They live in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

TV series
YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
2013Save Me
2014Happyland
2014Benched
2016–2020BoJack Horseman
2017Girlboss
2019Undone
2020The Baby-Sitters Club
2021Hacks
2022–presentThe Bear
2022Lost Ollie
2023Beef

Consulting producerTuca & Bertie Beef
Film writer