Carly Mensch is an American playwright, television writer, and producer. She created an Off-Broadway play called Len, Asleep in Vinyl,^[1][2] which was later adapted into a film, Len and Company.^[3] She also created a play Oblivion, which played at the Westport County Playhouse, as well as a play called All Hail Hurricane Gordo.^[4][5] She has written and produced for Weeds, Nurse Jackie, and Orange is the New Black.^[6] She co-created (with Liz Flahive) the Netflix series GLOW,^[7] which she currently writes and executive produces. For her work on GLOW, she was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2018.^[8]

Mensch graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 and is married to fellow Dartmouth alumnus Latif Nasser, the director of research and co-host of Radiolab.^[9]