Lindsay Anne Shookus (born June 18, 1980) is an American

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. She has been nominated for 10

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, winning four times, for her work on ''

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''.

Early life

Shookus's father, Robert, owned a manufacturers representative business while her mother, Christine, worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative. She has one older brother, Jeff, and one younger sister, Sara. She was raised in

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, and attended

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, where she was president of her junior and senior high school classes. She studied journalism at

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from 1998 to 2002.

Career

After graduating from college in 2002, Shookus was hired as

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's assistant on ''

''. In 2008, she became an associate producer on the show and also had producing credits on 45 episodes of ''

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'' between 2008 and 2010. She was named an ''SNL'' co-producer in 2010, and was named as a producer in 2012. She is head of the show's talent department, booking hosts and musical guests, as well as scouting potential cast members. She was named one of ''

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''s 50 Most Powerful Music Executives in both 2015 and 2016. After 20 years at ''SNL'', Shookus left the show in 2022. Shookus and friend Kristin O’Keeffe Merrick host an annual “Women Work Fucking Hard” networking event in New York, which spotlights female entrepreneurs and encourages women to help each other succeed in business.

Personal life

Shookus met television producer Kevin Miller in 2002 and they married in 2010. Their daughter, Madeline, was born in early 2013. The couple separated in 2014 and later divorced. She dated

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from 2017 to 2018, and again in early 2019. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Shookus supported

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and was a member of the

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Creative Council.

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