On a billboard over a Thai restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard, near the 101 Freeway ramp, Megan Amram made her plea. “I’d like an Emmy for my web series,” the billboard read in yellow text, over multiple black and white close-up pictures of Amram—the largest of which features her crying with mascara running down her face. Amram’s brazen D.I.Y. awards campaign paid off on Thursday when the Television Academy nominated her series, the effectively named An Emmy for Megan, for not one but two Emmys: outstanding short-form series, and outstanding actress in a short-form series.

“Now I’m looking into skywriting, those lawn signs people running for office use, and maybe I do a pop-up shop,” Amram said, speaking by phone from her office as a writer on NBC’s The Good Place, where she had arrived hours early Thursday morning to brace for the inevitable calls of congratulations and from journalists like this one. In our conversation, the line between Megan, the awards-thirsty character Amram plays in her Web series, and Megan, the awards-thirsty writer and performer Amram is in real life, felt paper thin—as if she had gone full, Daniel Day-Lewis method in pursuit of her dream. Amram confessed to spending $6,000 on her billboard. “I’m assuming I’m gonna go at least bankrupt or near bankrupt to win,” she said. “I honestly can’t believe that they didn’t find some reason to disqualify me.”

Amram, who has also written for Silicon Valley and Parks and Recreation, and maintains a popular Twitter feed, said she got the idea for An Emmy for Megan when two of her friends were nominated for short-form Emmy series last year. “I truly just thought to myself, if there’s a way that I can win an Emmy for acting, it’s probably through a short-form series, because I think my talents are best suited for five minutes and under,” she said. Amram wrote the series, which includes topical issues like body image and the inclusion rider, in two days. She enlisted help from producer Dave Kneebone at Abso Lutely Productions for a one-day shoot at her home three weeks before the Emmys submission deadline. “I feel like we should be offering tours now, to visit the set of An Emmy for Megan,” she said. Amram also asked famous friends like Seth Rogen, Jimmy Kimmel, RuPaul, Ted Danson, J.J. Abrams, Rian Johnson and Alan Yang to record cameo appearances on their phones.

Amram said if her series had not been nominated, she would have bought another billboard that said she was snubbed. Instead, now that she has earned her two nominations, Amram’s next task is to win. “You can’t take a break,” Amram said. “I can enjoy my nominations for an hour or so, but then I really need to start putting the pedal to the metal.”

Amram’s categories are part of the Creative Arts Emmys, which will be awarded on September 8 and 9 in Los Angeles. “I hope I get to go to both days, cause I feel like I deserve two different parties,” Amram said. She is hoping a famous designer will want to dress her— Christian Siriano is a favorite, “because I feel like he does great things with the female form.” Her speech, she said, she has been planning since day one. “There’s just a lot of that I have to say, that I think everyone would love to hear, so hopefully I get to say it,” Amram said. “I’m planning on being dragged off the stage.”