2024 DET Program Writer, Mahtub Zare Mochanloo

We’re very excited to share that 2024 DET Program Writer, Mahtub Zare Mochanloo, has staffed on Season 2 of Netflix/20th’s NOBODY WANTS THIS! Mahtub is a first-generation, queer Iranian-American writer born to a single, immigrant mother in Hamilton, Ohio. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Vanderbilt University and has previously worked at WME, at the arts advocacy nonprofit The Creative Coalition (where she helped launch The Diversity Fund Gap Initiative), and most recently at BallenStudios as a Coordinating Producer. Mahtub also worked for Amazon in NYC and spent a few summers working for legislators on Capitol Hill. Her feature THE SURROGATE is on the BlackList with an overall 8.5 rating, and her feature BUT I’M WEARING A SARI was a finalist in The Script Lab Screenplay Competition and among the top 5% of all projects listed on Coverfly. Between performing standup comedy and surfing in Topanga, Mahtub is passionate about writing comedies that touch on themes of queerness, shame and identity — but in situationally refreshing and enlightening ways. Keep up the great work, Mahtub!