Downtown Girls

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Downtown Girls is a comedy web-series created by Emebeit Beyene, Chandra Russell and Crystal Boyd about the trials and tribulations of four NYU graduates hustling to make it in New York City on their own; hilarity obviously ensues.

Downtown Girls

Now on to their second season the show kicks off with the girls realising they need to get their acts together when a hyper-motivated friend drops by to gloat about her post undergrad accolades. This triggers the girls to do an audit of what they are truly good at and they land on being the life of the party. What better way to scrounge up some serious cash than developing a house party app?

For more episodes of Downtown Girls subscribe to these channels:

http://WatchNYC.TVhttp://Facebook.com/NYCTV
http://Twitter.com/NYCTV
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Kate Stone
Kate Stone is the editor of Funny Women and an award-winning script writer. She has written comedy sketches for the BBC's 100 Women project and created the Funny Women Awards Comedy Shorts category.
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