Currently, Cook is a professor in the Visual and Media Arts Department at Emerson College in Boston, a top ten film school, where she teaches film and television writing. Additionally, she is the creator and director of the BFA in Comedic Arts, a first of its kind degree in the United States. The program has received press from 430 media outlets including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.
Cook is also the Founding Director of The Center for Comedic Arts at Emerson College.
additional work
“At ease”
Cook volunteered to be a writing mentor to two soldiers serving in Afghanistan. As a direct result of that mentorship, Cook teamed with the soldiers and co-wrote a treatment for a pilot about the war in Afghanistan, which she sold to Warner Bros., Jerry Bruckheimer Television and NBC. Cook also served as a consulting producer on the pilot.
series mania
In 2018, Cook mentored 20 promising television writers from across Europe as part of the Series Mania Writers Campus in Lille, France.