Crash Course: How to Succeed in TV Comedy

Averie started her career in TV as an NBC Page, learning the network and studio ropes while giving tours and working on THE TONIGHT SHOW. During her time at NBCUni, she earned the coveted assignment of Primetime Programming & Studios Development, where she saw the development of THE OFFICE, PARKS & RECREATION, PARENTHOOD, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, CHUCK, and 30 ROCK.

Later, she joined Amy Pascal's company as a Creative Executive, where she was tasked with creating an entire television department, and started with BENEATH A SCARLET SKY – the #1 Most Read and #2 Most Bought Book on Amazon in 2016 – and attached Tom Holland to star. She also worked on multiple features including Greta Gerwig’s LITTLE WOMEN, Aaron Sorkin’s MOLLY’S GAME, Paul Feig’s GHOSTBUSTERS, and Jon Watt’s SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING. After Pascal Pictures, she moved to BOOM! Studios, where she ran television as VP and set up over 20 projects based on their comic and graphic novel library. She was instrumental in selling BOOM!’s first ever television series at Disney+, JUST BEYOND, based on the RL Stine graphic novel of the same name. She also helped develop MECH CADET at Netflix and staffed the writers’ room, which debuted Top 10 on the platform in October '23. Other projects at BOOM! included JOYRIDE with Sera Gamble, John McNamara, and David Reed (FX), THE SPIRE with Gemma Holdway (Roku), BUTTERFLY with Arash Amel (Amazon), and BONE PARISH with Akela Cooper (MRC).

Leaving comics behind, she went to run Mandy Moore’s production company, Roll With The Punches where she was a producing partner and Head of Development. While at RWTP, she built out the slate to include TWIN FLAMES with Rebecca Adelmann, set up at Peacock, and LILI’UOKALANI with Shannon Goss Schwartz, Dana Ledoux Miller, and Destin Daniel Cretton, set up at Onyx. Under their deal at 20th, Roll With The Punches also won MY MOM HAS NO FRIENDS, an article by Monica Corcoran-Harel that has Daisy Gardner attached to showrun, in a six way bidding war; GRACE CHURCH with Kim Rosenstock & Rob Rosell; and FALLING FOR DANGER with Melinda Hsu.

Independent projects include adapting Maakiia Lucier’s DRAGONFRUIT for TV with Su’a Films and New Leaf Literary, which she negotiated the shopping agreement for; and MALCOLM MCREE & THE MONEY TREE, a co-viewing series that currently has Ty Burrell attached to star and Adam Shankman attached to direct.

Averie is Native Hawaiian (hapa) and a founding board member of PEAK (Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti), and on the boards of ULSC (Untitled Ladies’ Script Club) and the Inevitable Foundation’s Investment Advisory Board. Additionally, as someone with chronic illness, she is an active member of the Arthritis Foundation where she has raised over $30k for autoimmune research. She has done mentorships for Women in Film, Reel Champions, Film2Future, Outfest, and HRTS and led and designed the first ever Pasifika Producing & Executive Fellowship funded by The Asian American Foundation with a $15k grant.