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Honoring Rachel Bloom

Girls Write Now Fall 2025 Awards

On October 9, 2025, we honor writer and actor Rachel Bloom at the Girls Write Now Awards ceremony hosted at Diane von Furstenberg Studios.

Rachel Bloom is best known as the co-creator and star of the CW musical dramedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019). For her performance as “Rebecca Bunch,” Rachel won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy, the 2016 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a TV Comedy, and the 2016 TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. In 2019, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics alongside songwriting partners Jack Dolgen and the late Adam Schlesinger for Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal.

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“People who are not insecure help other people. They don’t see other people’s strength as their weakness. Seek out the people who make you feel more yourself, because anyone who doesn’t, they’re not someone you should look up to, anyway.”

Rachel Bloom Honoree

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Bowen Yang

Bowen Yang is an Emmy®-nominated comedian, actor and writer who has captivated audiences with his distinct wit and comedic style while breaking barriers across film, television and podcasting. He currently co-hosts the critically acclaimed podcast, Las Culturistas, alongside Matt Rogers. Yang and Rogers recently brought their Las Culturistas Culture Awards to television for the first time, which aired on Bravo on August 5 and is now streaming on Peacock. Las Culturistas was named Podcast of the Year at the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards in 2023 and 2025. Yang also stared in The Wedding Banquet, Andrew Ahn’s remake of the 1993 comedy, opposite Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan, which premiered at Sundance and debuted in theaters on April 18. Previously, Yang starred in Universal Pictures’ Academy® award-nominated film Wicked as “Pfannee” and will reprise his role in Wicked: For Good, releasing November 21. As a main cast member on Saturday Night Live since 2019, he has received four Emmy® nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. His additional credits include Fire Island, Bros, Dicks: The Musical, and Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. In 2021, Yang was featured in TIME’s 2021 100Artists list.

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Girls Write Now 2025 Awards