Lucia Aniello

Lucia Aniello is an American director, writer and producer best known for her work on Comedy Central’s, Broad City. She has directed and written episodes of Broad City. Aniello also directed Time Traveling Bong and is currently working on Rough Night, a female driven comedy which is slated to come out in 2017. Aniello currently resides in Los Angeles with her boyfriend and comedic partner Paul Downs.

Aniello grew up in Hadley, Massachusetts before moving to New York City. She graduated from Columbia University and is an alumna of the Upright Citizens Brigade.

Aniello is an alumna of the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improvisational and sketch comedy group founded in 1990 by a group of comedians including Amy Poehler who is an executive producer of Broad City. The troupe was originally based in Chicago but moved in 1996 to New York City where they opened their own theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where they both performed and taught classes.

Aniello and Paul W. Downs met at a Upright Citizens Brigade Level One improvisational comedy class. Aniello and Downs began working together on a series of digital shorts and improv. They started their own website and comedy production company called Paulilu Productions. Together they have been writing, directing and acting in digital shorts since 2007. Some of their most well-known web series include The Diary of Zac Efron and The Real Housewives of South Boston.

Aniello also met Ilana Glazer of Broad City through the same Upright Citizens Brigade class where she met Downs. Aniello and Glazer were dressed nearly identically at the time of their first meeting, which they now think was a sign for their future work together. As Aniello and Downs began to make digital shorts and build the foundations of Paulilu, Glazer and Abbi Jacobson worked on the prototype of Broad City. The two comedic duos supported each other’s work, occasionally acting in each other’s shorts or directing them.

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