Ethan Mermelstein is a New York-based screenwriter. He worked as script coordinator for the writers rooms on HBO’s “Girls" and Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie.” Much of his work stems from a deep desire to really know people — his friends, his family, his characters and himself.

His work as host on “Emotionally Reckless,” a podcast featuring “raw and intimate conversations between friends, lovers, professionals, relatives, and strangers," reflects this obsessive need.

His feature screenplay “The Zuckermans,” a dark comedy/drama about a Modern-Orthodox Jewish family from New York, forced to dig the podiatrist father out from a reckless insurance fraud scheme, was most recently selected as a finalist for the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony.