By Harper Lambert Middle school — that “gray world of dealing with adult feelings before you have the capacity to deal with them” says PEN15 co-creator Anna Konkle — is a chapter of life ...

‘PEN15’ follows two girls, Anna Kone and Maya Ishii-Peters, as they start 7th grade in 2000. Anna and Maya have been best friends for years, but their friendship is continuously tested as they ...

Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle took their first photograph ... But the irony that the two went on to create “Pen15,” a show about middle school in which they play tween versions of themselves ...

In many ways, “Pen15” has always been about family. Not only because family dynamics play such a prominent role in how young people perceive themselves and not even because Maya and Anna’s ...

Their Pen15 characters, middle schoolers Anna Konkle and Maya Ishii-Peters ... but figuring out where (or whether) to draw the line with content that could lean surprisingly dark.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, creators and stars of Hulu's PEN15, about capturing teen girlhood in all its awkward glory. I can't tell if "PEN15" is a comedy or a drama.

Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle know what “Pen15” fans are thinking — that the two ended their hit coming-of-age Hulu series after just two seasons because things got too complicated to do more ...

If Pen15's ending could be summed up in one, very early 2000's sentence, it would be this: Maya + Anna 4Eva. After Maya had a bad sexual experience with her boyfriend, all of her friends rallied ...

"It was weird not putting braces on before the scene," Anna Konkle ... commercial Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle had an aha moment when filming their latest project together. The PEN15 creators ...

Anna Konkle's PEN15 costar Maya Erskine is also currently expecting her first child Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment and ...