Early Life
Raphael was born and raised in Rockville Centre, New York to parents Diane and John Raphael, where she graduated from South Side High School in 1998. After high school, she attended New York University (NYU), where she studied acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She has two older sisters, Lauren Raphael and New York-based actress Deanna Raphael. After graduating New York University in 2002, Raphael and her best friend from college, Casey Wilson, began studying improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, where they would eventually run their two-woman sketch show for a number of years. Performing the long-running stage show opened doors for them as writers, after performing the show at the "U.S. Comedy Arts Festival" in 2005, they were hired by New Regency Pictures to write the film Bride Wars and landed a development deal with UPN to create a sitcom pilot.
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