Carrie McCrossen

actor. writer. comedian.

Carrie McCrossen is an actor-writer-comedian who loves a good hyphen. She was a longtime performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York and has appeared on TV, (Divorce, Adam Ruins Everything, The Rundown,) on stage, (The Pearl,) and if you are a Comcast subscriber, you may know her as the longtime host of Xfinity On-Demand.

Carrie’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, the Lifetime network, and on Funny or Die. Her debut YA novel, Margot Mertz Takes It Down, (co-written with Ian McWethy,) is coming out this fall. When not working, Carrie enjoys buying her son handmade wooden toys he has no interest in and forcing him to harmonize with her. 

Margot Mertz Takes It Down

CHECK OUT MY NEW BOOK!
Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school.

MARGOT MERTZ FOR THE WIN

Veronica Mars meets Moxie in the hilarious and thought-provoking sequel to Margot Mertz Takes it Down.
It’s senior year. And Margot’s on a mission to be a better Margot. Which means saying goodbye to her old cleanup ways—and their inherent moral ambiguities.

Carrie McCrossen

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Another Piece in The New Yorker

Just in time for the holidays, here’s a short humor piece I wrote about lying to your child. Featured in “Daily Shouts” on Christmas Eve.
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A novel… coming in Fall 2021

It’s official. Our two-book deal with Philomel (Penguin/Random House) has been announced in Publisher’s Weekly. Margot Mertz Will Clean Your Filth  Margot Mertz Takes It Down ...
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The New Yorker

I wrote a humor piece about quarantine that ran in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts. Is quarantine funny? Not really. But I think having a full ...
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