Pen15

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Pen15
Genre
Created by
Showrunners
Starring
Opening theme"Demirep"
by Bikini Kill
ComposerLeo Birenberg
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes25
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Jeremy Reitz
  • Don Dunn
  • Scott Levine
CinematographyAndy Rydzewski
Editors
  • Matt McBrayer
  • Taichi Erskine
  • Amelia Allwarden
Running time
  • 26–36 minutes
  • 40 minutes (series finale)
Production companies
Original release
NetworkHulu
ReleaseFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08) –
December 3, 2021 (2021-12-03)
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Pen15 is an American comedy television series, created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, that premiered on February 8, 2019, on Hulu. The series stars Erskine and Konkle, who also serve as executive producers alongside Zvibleman, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Becky Sloviter, Marc Provissiero, Brooke Pobjoy, Debbie Liebling, and Gabe Liedman.

In May 2019, Hulu renewed the series for a second season of fourteen episodes, the first half of which premiered on September 18, 2020. In November 2021, it was reported that the series' second season would be its last.[4]

Pen15 is described as "middle school as it really happened". Erskine and Konkle – who were both 31 years old at the start of season one – "play versions of themselves as 13-year-old social outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual 13-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen." The show takes its name from a school prank involving tricking someone in to writing the word "PEN15" (which looks like the word “penis”) on their hands, by asking if they want to join the "Pen 15 Club".[5][6]

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  3. ^ Lindsay, Benjamin. "Partners in 'Pen15'". Backstage. Archived from the original on September 27, 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
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  5. ^ Petski, Denise (April 19, 2018). "Hulu Picks Up Middle School Comedy Series 'PEN15'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  6. ^ Marine, Brooke (March 10, 2019). "PEN15 Creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle Are Unfazed By Their First AIM Screen Names". WMagazine. Archived from the original on January 1, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2022.