18 Facts About Megan Ganz

Megan Ann Ganz was born on June 1,1984 and is an American comedy writer, podcaster, and former associate editor of The Onion.

Megan Ganz has been a writer and executive producer on the FXX series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia since 2017.

Megan Ganz previously wrote for the NBC series Community for three years from 2010 to 2013, and left to write for Modern Family from 2013 to 2015, where she won an Emmy.

Megan Ganz wrote for the Fox comedy series The Last Man on Earth, and co-created the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest alongside Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day.

Megan Ganz's father died when she was eight years old.

Megan Ganz graduated from Hackett Catholic Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2002.

Megan Ganz returned to New York and became assistant editor at The Onion and was later promoted to associate editor.

In 2008 Megan Ganz was featured on an episode of This American Life along with other Onion staff members.

In summer 2009 Megan Ganz left her job at The Onion and moved to Los Angeles to become a writer for the Comedy Central sketch show Important Things with Demetri Martin.

In 2013, after the shortened season 4 of Community had wrapped, Megan Ganz joined the writing staff of the ABC series Modern Family.

In 2015, Megan Ganz created and produced an animated action-comedy pilot called Cassius and Clay which was expected to be paired with Archer on FXX, but the show never progressed beyond the pilot stage.

In 2016, Megan Ganz announced on her Instagram that she had been hired as a writer for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where she has since been promoted to executive producer and director for certain episodes.

In 2017, Megan Ganz was a writer and co-executive producer for Fox sitcom, The Last Man on Earth.

In 2023, Megan Ganz was an executive producer on In These Cleats, a sports comedy podcast hosted by Paige Nielsen and Tien Tran focused on Women's soccer.

Megan Ganz cites Dave Barry, Kaitlin Olson, Louis Sachar, Mad, Charles Schulz, and Bill Watterson as influences.

In 2018, during a Twitter exchange with Community creator and executive producer Dan Harmon, Megan Ganz revealed Harmon engaged in inappropriate behavior toward her during their time on the show together.

Megan Ganz said that she felt vindicated by the admission and accepted his apology, urging her Twitter followers to listen to this episode of Harmontown, and calling it a "master class in how to apologize", ultimately forgiving him.

Megan Ganz has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for Modern Family twice, winning in 2014, and nominated in 2015.