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Katie Torpey is an award-winning screenwriter/filmmaker with an MFA from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She has sold several screenplays, written for television and worked for numerous studios and networks. She co-created the animated TV show “Mother Up!” starring Eva Longoria, which was one of Hulu’s first original animated series. She also was one of the head writers for the TV show Power Rangers produced by Disney and Saban. She wrote and directed the independent film “Truth About Kerry” shot in Ireland, starring Stana Katic (TV show Castle) which was released in April 2012. Her romantic comedy “On the Other Side,” hit theaters in Bollywood in 2006. Her original screenplay “The Perfect Man” starring Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear and Chris Noth was released in the summer of 2005. Her latest screenplay, “Spaghetti Park,” is currently in pre-production and slated to shoot in 2018, and she is in the progress of adapting her memoir, “Just Breathe,” into a screenplay.
In January 2017, Katie launched her own production company, Your Story Productions, a Film, Television, and Digital Media Company that focuses on creating content that entertains and makes a difference. Katie will be teaching Advanced Screenwriting in the MFA Screenwriting Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television during the 2017-2018 school year.
Katie is bi-coastal and lives in CT and Los Angeles.
I used to love summer. Every Memorial Day weekend, the pool we belonged to would open up and I’d put on my one-piece Speedo and happily go play. Summer afternoons passed slowly. I ate popsicles and went off the diving board. Life was good. Then, I turned eleven. And I slowly started to hate summer. […]
It was in the spring of 2005 when I hit rock bottom in my life. I was a married screenwriter/filmmaker living in Los Angeles. I had written a movie that was about to be released on 2,000 screens across the country. You would think my life would have been great. It wasn’t. I was 5’5″ […]
If you have been reading my blogs over the past few years, you know I’ve juggled an addiction or two. In my 30s, I was obese and used food as an escape until I got an HG coach and learned how to put a leash on my vices, design dreams and care enough about my […]
I loved and loathed my summers growing up on the east coast. Why? Oh, that’s easy: bathing suits. Every Memorial Day weekend, the pool we belonged to would open up for the summer and I’d put on my one-piece Speedo and happily go play. That was until, I turned eleven and well, I came to […]
Up until 8 years ago, I was one of those people who struggled with their weight their entire life. I was a yoyo, up and down. I’d put on weight, lose it, and then put it back on. I read a ton of diet books and dabbled in each diet/exercise program, but inevitably, I’d cheat, […]
Greetings from an awesome summer time! This is my first summer living in my new house on the lake, and I’ve been relishing afternoons on the water and time in the sun (with sunscreen, of course!). It’s from a place of pride and self-love that I can recall – many years and 130 pounds ago – a time in […]