After graduating with a film degree from Vassar College, Mandy set up shop in New York City, writing the well-received film Tour of Pain & sketch comedy show "The Mecky Stecky Show" while performing and writing with the comedy group The Pocket Subversives, the Upright Citizens Brigade, and co-founding the Noumenon Theatre Company. Currently, in addition to writing the series "Dropping the Soap,” her short film, “Killing Vivian,” which she wrote and directed, earned her “Top Female Filmmaker” at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival.  She's slated to direct the feature "Hemlock Drive" Spring 2015, and she is a Story Editor on Showtime's “Web Therapy.”  Mandy lives in LA with her husband Patrick Fabian, her daughters Abbey and Delilah, and "Daisy, the Worst Dog Ever™."