Melanie Chartoff She's known for characters she's created on the TV series Fridays, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Seinfeld, Newhart, Rugrats, Weird Science, Wiseguys, and many more Broadway and Off Broadway stage performances. Her first book, "Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories" is a 5 star hit. The e book, paperback are available wherever books are sold; the audio, which she enacts, is available on Findaway and Audible online. Melanie might also be known from peak moments in the entertainment zeitgeist, currently viewable on YouTube and streaming online: 1. In the infamous Andy Kaufman incident on the late-night comedy show, Friday’s, the comic ruins a sketch live on the air, demeaning the material and the show. His prissy wife throws rolls at him and stares him down as Michael Richards and Jack Burns tussle with him in a preplanned improvisation that kicked off staged reality on network television. Melanie plays the wife, later immortalized in Milos Forman’s film, Man on the Moon. 2. On “The Fire” episode of Seinfeld: trying to escape a small smoky kitchen fire, George Costanza knocks over his girlfriend Robin’s kid’s birthday party attendees and her mother on a walker. And in the Final Seinfeld (watched by 76,000 viewers when it first aired), this contemptuous ex-girlfriend testifies to George’s despicable character on the stand. Melanie is Robin the recurring girlfriend. 3. On an episode of Newhart, Dr. Mary Kaiser begins the reveal that Bob’s current life is actually a nightmare he’s having in the middle of his real life on his first sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show. Melanie plays his and the whole casts’ therapist, Dr. Kaiser. 4. On Nickleodeon’s longest running series Rugrats, and its spin off All Grown Up, in the musical stage shows and Rugrats movies, Melanie voices the mother, Didi Pickles. She’s also the voice of Didi’s mother, the Russian immigrant grandma Minka. And in the historic first animated Jewish holiday special, A Rugrats Chanukah, Melanie voices Minka who narrates the tale of Judah the Maccababy, and grandmothers the babies in the animated Rugrats Passover Special. More recently she’s written for McSweeney’s, Funny Times, Entropy, Mused, Bluestem, Verdad, Five on the Fifth, two editions of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books; Jewish Journal, Defenestration Magazine, One for the Table, Better After 50, Living the Second Act, Huffington Post, and often performs her pieces at spoken word events for Comedy Central’s Sit n’ Spin, at Jewish Women’s Theatre—for whom she is an artist-in-residence— Poetry in Motion, and Tasty Words programs in Los Angeles. She’s a produced playwright. This is her first screenplay. For more information, visit her on Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, and her websites, melaniechartoff.com and charismatizing.com