A Glimpse Behind the Curtain

John August--whose screenwriting blog is fantastically useful--has an all-purpose bio posted on his website today. His advice is to customize it as needed. By happy coincidence, I also need a bio for a couple upcoming submissions. And I'm still trying to post every day through the end of November. So, here goes:

Kate hails from Oak Park, Il, hometown of the writer Ernest Hemingway, actor Tom Lennon, and humorist Michael Gerber*. The oldest of five children, she found escape from the rambunctious insanity of her siblings through the work of Jane Austen and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Inspired to spend the rest of her life safely encased in an imaginary world of her own making, she dedicated herself to telling the fictional adventures of a series of dark-haired, dark-eyed misunderstood loners. To this end, she earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she very nearly failed out of 16 mm Film Production, and to her great surprise, won a couple of awards for her senior project, a short collection of poems. Stumbling into the nascent world of interactive game design, she wrote trivia questions for "You Don't Know Jack" until the collapse of the domestic CD-ROM market forced her into unemployment. During the long search for another writing job, Kate got married, did a lot of improv and wrote three spec scripts for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." They were uniformly terrible, but the first 10 pages were good enough to secure her a spot at USC's School of Cinema Television. She and her fella currently live in Santa Monica with their three cats, while Kate completes her MFA.


*Kate has never met Ernest Hemingway, but she once held Mr. Lennon's pants for him during a costume change for a high school production of "The Foreigner." She is currently Mr. Gerber's "wife with benefits." If you know what I mean. Yeah, they're doing it.