kateRchrisman

Environmentalist | Writer | Mother

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Berlin-based Screenwriter and Editor

Welcome to my spot on the internet! 

I write high concept dramedies about mothers who make “bad” choices. My half-hour dramedy pilot Outsourced was a semifinalist for the Austin Film Festival 2022, a semifinalist for the Stowe Story Labs Maven Fellowship 2023, a quarterfinalists for the Cinestory Fellowship 2023, and a quarterfinalist for the Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship in 2022. 

I also write short humor pieces and essays (you can find links to these below). Earlier in my career, I wrote about energy and finance.

I help companies and individuals communicate their ideas clearly. 

When I’m not writing, you can find me running after my small children.

Before I started writing screenplays and short humor, I did other stuff! Like traveling to coal mines in Mongolia, writing about the illegal use of additives in gasoline in China, representing proxy voters at investor meetings in Texas, explaining financial swaps to Chinese wind companies, and championing renewable energy.

I've traveled extensively throughout Asia. Back in 2012, I bought a $300 Giant bicycle, left my job in Beijing and rode through China, Laos, and Thailand with my fiancé. 

I speak Chinese (真的). I live in Germany. It would probably be better for me to speak German.

I'm a feminist and a mother of three.

 

I Like Learning

I hope you do too.

In case you care about things like where I've studied, I have a MSc in Public Policy from the London School of Economics. I have a B.A. in International Political Science and Asian Studies from Colorado College. I also studied Chinese language at National Taiwan University.

I've taken writing classes through UC Berkeley, the Grotto in San Francisco, Left Margin Lit in Berkeley, the Reader Berlin, Comedy Cafe Berlin, and most recently through Second City.

Screenplays

Check out my profile on Coverfly.

OUTSOURCED

In the high-pressure world of Silicon Valley where women lean in and mistakes are costly, a driven but overwhelmed postpartum venture capitalist outsources her sex life to save her marriage and family. - 30 minute dramedy


Semifinalist for the Austin Film Festival 2022, a semifinalist for the Stowe Story Labs Maven Fellowship, a quarterfinalists for the Cinestory Fellowship 2023, and a quarterfinalist for the Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship in 2022. 



THE DO-GOODERS

When an anxious corporate do-gooder finds the budget to her environmental program slashed, she takes matters into her own hands – literally – by teaming up with a ragtag group of climate activists to destroy the country’s fossil fuel infrastructure, one pipeline at a time. - 30 minute dramedy. 

TRAILING SPOUSES

When a high-achieving political consultant moves to Germany for her husband’s job, she finds an unexpected community among a group of trailing spouses. -  30 minute dramedy.

Short Satire

Read some of my satire, please!