Monica Beletsky
Monica Beletsky is an American television producer and screenwriter. She was a writer and producer for the third season of the FX series, Fargo. Past writing and producing credits include the drama series The Leftovers,, Friday Night Lights, and the first four seasons of Parenthood. She was a producer and writer for I Am the Night, a TNT limited series helmed by Patty Jenkins.
In 2017, Beletsky was nominated with her colleagues for an Emmy Award for Best Limited Series and a PGA and a WGA Award for Long Form Adapted for Fargo. In 2011, she was on the team of writers nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for Best Drama series for the fourth and fifth seasons of Friday Night Lights.
The best seller, The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White is dedicated to Beletsky and a few other influential people in the podcaster/author's life.
In 2019, Beletsky received an overall TV development deal from AppleTV+.Biography
Beletsky grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Julia R. Masterman School. She went to Harvard University.
She was a theatre director from 2000–2006 in NYC and the U.K. Her mother is Jewish and her father is African American.
