Kate Jay

Screenwriter

Santa Barbara, California

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June 2014

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About Kate

I wrote my first screenplay in 2001 two week before the deadline for the Project Greenlight Contest being held by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. After being a finalist in that while still at college I decided to move to Los Angeles once I graduated. I got a job as an assistant to a manager for actors then became an assistant to Jeff Kline at Sony doing work on the Jackie Chan Adventures, Dragontales, That was Then, and Ricochet. I moved on to ABC and the Walt Disney Company working for Don Todd on the show "Samantha Who." During this time I wrote a spec script for Entourage and several more feature screenplays. I turned down a job working at the E! network doing gossip in order to begin a family in Santa Barbara. I have continued many more screenplays since the time I left Los Angeles and will never give up on the belief that one day they will each get made. 2024 Winner of the Stage 32 Action/Thriller Screenplay Contest.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 3"

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Survival of the Fittest Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller A serial killer kidnaps a clinically depressed young woman in order to teach her that life is worth fighting for.
Quiet Luxury Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller After a double homicide rocks a small town a mother dying of cancer sets out to find who is to blame before it's too late. But what if the answer is is not the one that she was hoping for?
The Pink Starbursts Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A woman goes to rehab and finds herself thrown into a group of dysfunctional personalities that become her tribe and her only sanity in her insane situation.Tagline: Who are you when you sober up?
Passing Period Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A group of thirty-somethings reunite for their high school reunion and confront who they were in the past, who they are now, and where there are headed.Tagline: Do you know who you are yet?
Freedom Summer Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Drama A white college-girl spends her summer of 64' break in a Mississippi town, full of civil and racial unrest, risking her own life in order to aide in the civil rights movement.
Pictures from a Grave Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama A young woman journeys with her parents from her University back to her hometown after the sudden suicide of her happy-go-lucky and favorited sister.