Kate McEvilly is a Los Angeles native who came out of the womb singing Chaka Khan and avoiding the sun. She wrote an advice column in her school newspaper as a child, survived a harrowing mouse attack in Joshua Tree National Park as a tween, and baked 10,000 cupcakes to raise money for fresh water wells as a teen. She studied cultural anthropology, business, and sports marketing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before transferring to the University of California, Irvine to study medical anthropology and law and policy. She’s worked in non-profits, family portrait photography, assisting psychoanalysts, and runs a side business building websites and pitch decks for creatives. So naturally she’s a screenwriter now.

She currently works as a creative assistant at Guilty Party Films, where she champions flawed, fearless women who know how to throw a punch, literally and figuratively. The role has given her a front-row seat to the development process and deepened her understanding of what makes a story work at every level, from concept to execution.

Her rom-com Irish Goodbye was a Quarter-Finalist at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and four of her pilots have placed at the Austin Film Festival. When she’s not writing, you can catch her cheering on her precious Dodgers and Lakers.