My absurdist comedy, TRIVIAL PURSUITS, along with my sparkling personality, has helped me become a 2024 CineStory Fellowship Feature Finalist, placing in the top 3.

TRIVIAL PURSUITS started as a love letter to my nerdy Quiz Bowl peeps but grew into so much more. It’s simultaneously absurdist and grounded with a ragtag group of underdogs taking on the world, and learning what winning really looks like in the process. I wish I could send it to my High School self and let her know there’s so much more to life than grades. In the end, I guess I learned this.

LOGLINE: Based on a true-ish story, a type-A nerd partners with a dopey jock, a mysterious artist, and a cynical delinquent to save their public school Trivia Bowl team from dissolution at the hands of their private academy rivals.

COMPS: Nerdier PITCH PERFECT aka tonally BOOKSMART.

If anyone fancy is reading this and still very interested, here's a link to check it out.

Great news for TRIVIAL PURSUITS! (The title’s a lot of words. I’ll explain.)

As a semi-finalist, TRIVIAL PURSUITS made the Top 2% of scripts submitted to the Austin Film Festival (AFF). AFF has tens of thousands of submissions each year, so it’s a high honor. The Enderby Award is specifically for “feature scripts in all genres with an original concept and distinctive voice that can be produced for under $10 million.

Basically, I’ve got voice coming out of my butt, and this script can be made on the [relatively] cheap. Which, honestly, feels validating because this script is a bit bonkers.

HMU if you’re interested.

TRIVIAL PURSUITS

LOGLINE: Based on a true-ish story, a type-A nerd partners with a dopey jock, a mysterious artist, and a cynical delinquent to save their public school Trivia Bowl team from dissolution at the hands of their private academy rivals.

COMPS: Nerdier PITCH PERFECT aka tonally BOOKSMART.

[Honored. Anxious. Excited.]

I’m honored by this selection and by the incredible opportunity to work with Circle Management and Production & Anarchists United over the next 6 months.

I wrote a thoughtful reflection on my Instagram. The lengthy post likely undermines my aspirations as a pithy comedy writer. But also, I was chosen for my 1/2 hour dark comedy, REAPER, INC., which just keeps reaping recognition [ha. ha. ha.], so maybe there’s still some hope for me yet.

Eschewing the insecurities for a second, I want to sit in this moment. Being a screenwriter is a test of insanity. Wins are elusive. All you can do is love the grind. Enjoy the mind-numbing task of sitting alone in front of a blank page and putting words on it. [Ideally in a coherent order, but if not, that’s what D2-D100 are for.]

That’s it. That’s the job. Over and over again.

Today, I’ll celebrate the win.

But tomorrow, the real work begins.

xoxo, K.

Reaper, Inc. strikes again!

I was a finalist FOX Entertainment’s TV Fellowship in Comedy and Animation! While I wasn’t selected, I am so grateful for the experience and humbled to have even been considered.

Coming for you guys next year—so watch out.

Time for my big face again… :)

I’m so honored to be CineStory’s 2022 TV Fellowship Comedy winner! Honestly, I’m surprised that people responded to this weird, dark 1/2 hour comedy (Reaper, Inc.) about Grim Reapers that design human deaths. (What the fuck is wrong with you??)

In case you’re still reading, take a gander at the full story here.

I’m honored and floored that Now Streaming is a Finalist in UCLA’s 2021 Screenwriters’ Showcase.

It was a major labor of love — a little gay allegory musical that could — and I’m blown away by the response to the script. Write with your heart, y’all and it’ll happen.

I’m thrilled to have been awarded The Alexandra Lederer Scholarship. It’s given to a screenwriting MFA student who, in the opinion of the Screenwriting faculty, through his or her work, most closely matches that of the vision of the Screenwriting Program. After two years in UCLA’s MFA program, writing and rewriting and rewriting again to refine my craft and find my voice, this recognition means everything to me.

Out of a record 7,831 entries into the 2020 Nicholls Fellowship for Screenwriting, Games in the Sky was chosen as one of the 365 Quarter Finalists.

I honestly have no words. I’ll let you know if I advance further in the Fellowship Competition, but for now, no words.

I’m floored and so so so honored to be a semi-finalist for Humanitas’ Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Fellowship for my script Games in the Sky. I’ll keep you posted if I advance to the next round!

https://www.humanitasprize.org/

As a finalist UCLA Screenwriters’ Showcase, I was featured in Deadline. (Hopefully not the last time!)

https://deadline.com/2020/06/ucla-school-of-theater-film-and-television-2020-screenwriting-showcase-winners-1202956781/

UCLA hosts a yearly Screenwriting Showcase Competition for all students in their MFA program. Any Screenwriting student (1st or 2nd year) is able to apply. This year there were 80+ scripts scored and evaluated by 250+ industry professionals.

My script Games in the Sky was a finalist in the Feature — Drama category. I’m so blown away and honored to be recognized.

This was a crazy personal story for me and I put all of myself into it. I’m really glad others fell in love with two moms their amazingly special son.

I am thrilled to be recognized and awarded the Carl David Memorial Fellowship. Based on my screenplay, Games in the Sky, the award recognizes a script that promotes educational awareness and a positive image of gay and lesbian pride and culture to the gay and lesbian community, its supporters and the general population.

After a two year process, including quitting my tech job in San Francisco, taking classes at the local community college, pouring numerous hours into a creative portfolio, and nailing one hyper-critical 20 minute interview, I’ve officially been accepted into UCLA’s TFT MFA Screenwriting Program, Class of 2021.

I’m not naive—this one of many steps towards becoming a professional screenwriter. But for now, I’ll celebrate the victory.

(My first ever screenplay, Out on a Limb, was used as part of this submission process.)

My non-fiction short story Scenes from an Autobiographical Character Sketch was published in Forum Literary Magazine’s Fall 2018 edition.

It’s my first (of hopefully many) publications.