RespectAbility Entertainment Professionals Lab 2024
Katherine Craft
Katherine Craft is a born and raised Texan with low vision who has been known to introduce herself multiple times to the same person at a party. She started her career as a playwright and theatre maker – holds an MA in Applied Drama from Goldsmiths College at the University of London – and then transitioned into film and television with an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin.
She’s the creator and writer of the Audible Original comedy series Shaky, currently in post-production and slated to premiere summer 2024. She also wrote on the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ series Best Foot Forward and is the creator and writer of the Snap Original Series Kappa Crypto, an NBC/Snap production.
She received an HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, and her pilot Halfway, written as part of the program, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. She has written and produced several short narrative films, including June, which won first place in the HBO 2018 Asian Pacific American Visionaries showcase, and Charlotte and Charlie, which was a finalist in the 2019 PBS Online Film Festival.
She also founded Conspire Theatre, a nonprofit that uses theatre to work with women during and after incarceration. Craft was a teaching artist for arts education organizations in Austin, Chicago, and London. She was the Hotline Coordinator for the Lilith Fund, an abortion fund in Austin, TX, for six years.
She loves watching and writing comedy and genre, and the way really good jokes and stories can open up conversations about deeper issues. She’s passionate about including characters and stories that we don’t usually see, and finding the humor and humanism in them.
Craft currently splits her time between LA and Austin.
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After an extensive search and interview process, 5 individuals were invited to participate in an intensive session for disabled comedy writers, taking place June 20-28, with additional virtual sessions taking place in partnership with the virtual cohort, May – September 2024. Participants include people with a variety of disabilities ranging in age from the 20s through the 40s. This intensive elevates disabled creatives, focusing on building community, networking, and career advancement. This intensive is in collaboration with ABC Entertainment.
