Nell Scovell

Biography

Nell Scovell is a television and magazine writer, producer and director. She is the creator of the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which aired on ABC and The WB from 1996 until 2003. As a television writer, Scovell wrote the season two episode of The Simpsons, "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish". Other TV writing credits include Coach, Monk, Murphy Brown, Charmed, Newhart, Late Night with David Letterman, NCIS, and many others. Outside of television, Scovell was the first staff writer hired at Spy magazine and is a former contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She has also written for Vogue, Rolling Stone, Self, Tatler, and The New York Times Magazine. She currently blogs for Vanity Fair's web site. Scovell has also directed two made for television movies: Hayley Wagner, Star for Showtime and It Was One of Us for Lifetime. Scovell is married to Colin Summers and has two sons. She has a brother, science teacher Ted Scovell of Friends Seminary in New York; a sister, Julie Scovell Kaufman; a sister, novelist Claire Scovell LaZebnik; and another sister, children's author Alice Scovell Coleman. She is a graduate of Harvard College (class of 1982).