Janae Bakken is an American television producer and screenwriter best
known for her work on the television series Scrubs.The Minneapolis,
Minnesota-born Bakken has worked on Scrubs since 2001, as a writer,
and in 2002 served as a story editor, but was promoted and until 2004,
served as an executive story editor. From there to 2005, she worked as
a co-producer and in 2006 became a producer, and between 2006 and 2007
was supervising producer of twenty episodes. Aside from Scrubs, she
has written the 2005 film Artistic License and two episodes during the
third season of Malcolm in the Middle.She once commented that almost
all of the ideas brought into and discussed in the Scrubs' writers'
room were parallel to the writers' own lives, and that she
specifically had suggested a number of storylines and subplots based
on her own life. An alumna of Northwestern University she has held a
number of lectures at their School of Communication.She married actor
Michael Cotter on April 24, 2004; the couple has one child.
known for her work on the television series Scrubs.The Minneapolis,
Minnesota-born Bakken has worked on Scrubs since 2001, as a writer,
and in 2002 served as a story editor, but was promoted and until 2004,
served as an executive story editor. From there to 2005, she worked as
a co-producer and in 2006 became a producer, and between 2006 and 2007
was supervising producer of twenty episodes. Aside from Scrubs, she
has written the 2005 film Artistic License and two episodes during the
third season of Malcolm in the Middle.She once commented that almost
all of the ideas brought into and discussed in the Scrubs' writers'
room were parallel to the writers' own lives, and that she
specifically had suggested a number of storylines and subplots based
on her own life. An alumna of Northwestern University she has held a
number of lectures at their School of Communication.She married actor
Michael Cotter on April 24, 2004; the couple has one child.
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