Cindy Chupack ’87

Celebrated television writer, producer, and director

Cindy Chupack is an award-winning television writer and producer whose credits include Sex and the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, Modern Family, Better Things, Divorce, and the upcoming miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble. She also directed and cowrote the film Otherhood, starring Angela Bassett, Felicity Huffman, and Patricia Arquette.

A prolific storyteller across mediums, Chupack has performed stories live for The Moth; written for the “Modern Love” column in the New York Times; served as a panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!; had columns in Glamour and O, The Oprah Magazine; and authored two comic memoirs: the New York Times bestseller The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essays and The Longest Date: Life as a Wife. Her first children’s picture book, We Waited for You, will be released in 2023, and she currently is writing an original Netflix film that she also will direct.

Chupack is a 2020 inductee to the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications’s Hall of Achievement and an active member of Northwestern’s Council of One Hundred. She is working with Northwestern’s McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives to house her life’s work. Along with Shannon Fopeano ’87 and Laura Saade ’87, Chupack founded Tea & Empathy, a Los Angeles women’s salon that raised awareness and money for 50 different nonprofits over its 10-year run.

Chupack has won a primetime Emmy Award for both Modern Family and Sex and the City, three Golden Globe Awards for Sex and the City, three Producers Guild of America Awards, and one Writers Guild of America Award. Several of her individually penned episodes have been nominated for additional Emmy and Writers Guild awards.

Chupack received her bachelor’s in journalism from Northwestern and has one daughter, Olivia.