Alumna Jean Frazier '18 Joins Writing Team for Netflix's ‘Beef’

Alumna Jean Kyoung Frazier '18 has joined the writing team for a new Netflix dramedy called Beef, created by Lee Sung Jin (Dave, Tuca & Bertie). 

The 10-episode series will be produced by Studio A24 with stars Steven Yeun (Minari) and Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe, Baby Cobra, Hard Knock Wife, Tuca & Bertie) acting as executive producers alongside Jin. 

Each 30-minute episode follows two people "who let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action." Jinny Howe, VP of Drama Development for Original Series at Netflix said of the project, "We are incredibly excited to collaborate with Lee Sung Jin and help bring this rich series to life...Jin has created a bold and at times outrageous world. It is an honest and powerful character study of two people who go about searching for connection in the unlikeliest of ways."

For Frazier, whose debut novel Pizza Girl (Doubleday, 2020) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and was named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, the idea of unlikely connection is no strange thing. Pizza Girl's protagonist is 18 years old, pregnant, and obsessed with a middle-aged stay-at-home mother. The two eventually become closer and the lines in their relationship begin to blur in strange ways, ultimately resulting in a heartbreaking story about connection, parenthood, and how to find one's place in the world. 

A premiere date has not yet been set for this new series. 

Jean Kyoung Frazier lives in Los Angeles. Pizza Girl is her debut novel.