Kathryn Paulsen

Kathryn Paulsen writes screenplays, stage plays, prose, and poetry. She earned an MFA in film, with a concentration on screenwriting and di- recting at Columbia University; her thesis film, “Respects,” was awarded grants  from  the  Louis  B.  Mayer  Fund  and  the  Brookdale  Institute  on Adult Human Development, and was distributed by Media Guild. As a teaching  artist,  she  has  worked  with  students in  film/video and  play- writing residencies in Virginia, Michigan, and Montana.
Her screenplays include THE HIGHWAYMAN, a drama set in eighteenth century England, which won NY Women in Film and Television’s inaugu- ral Best Screenplay Competition; THE RETURN OF ROOTER, a semifinalist for  the  2015  Screencraft  Comedy  Screenplay  Contest,  which  was  op- tioned by Nuper films; her thesis script THE SEASON; and a psychological thriller, ANSWERS, which was optioned by Symphony Pictures.
Her plays “Somewhere Waiting for You,” a finalist for the Julie Harris Award and in other competitions, and “The Ultimate Weapon” a semifi- nalist  for  the  2015  Eugene  O’Neill  Playwriting  Conference,  were  per- formed as staged readings in New York City.
Kathryn has been awarded residence grants for playwriting at the Mac- Dowell  Colony  and  Ledig  House,  and  for  fiction  at  Yaddo  and  other artists’ colonies. Her short stories and poems have been published in lit- erary journals and her articles and essays in the New York Times, LA Times, and other periodicals.  Her novels are represented by Sam Hiyate of The Rights Factory.  You can find her in the blogosphere at ramblesan- drevels.blogspot.com.   She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Authors Guild.
She currently lives in New York City, where she works as a freelance writ- er and editor, but, having grown up in an Air Force family, has roots in many places.
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