Keri Lee writes provocative, character-driven comedies that explore everything from social alienation to ecological collapse.
Her female-driven eco-horror-comedy RAT BASTARDS was Best Comedy Screenplay at the Nashville Film Festival and top 10% in the Nicholl Fellowships. Her MMA comedy/drama, CAGE LIFE, was a Writers Lab and Shore Scripts finalist and a top-10 comedy finalist in Final Draft Big Break.
Keri works as a freelance writer for various industry and nonprofit publications. She has a master’s degree in English lit from Claremont Graduate University and is an alum of the Community of Writers Fiction Workshop and the Athena Film Festival Screenwriting Lab.
PROJECTS
Feature Screenplays
RAT BASTARDS (eco-horror-comedy)
When a former combat medic decides to lead a group of misfits into battle against a colony of mutant rats, she approaches the job like she approaches life: stoned, armed, and angry.
This female-driven, multigenerational ensemble feature combines Zombieland’s unhinged action and found-family thematic with Cocaine Bear’s contained cast/location and viral marketing opportunities.
CAGE LIFE (fight comedy)
While training for a must-win fight against a trash-talking sociopath, MMA’s most beloved and self-destructive bad boy must take on an even fiercer opponent — his long-repressed past — with the help of an equally dysfunctional female therapist.
Television Pilot
BEAUTIFUL GAME (half-hour comedy/drama)
Hellbent on giving her son a better life, a heavily tattooed single mom with impulse-control issues moves to a stuffy suburb — where her son’s dream of playing soccer rests on her stepping up to coach his ragtag team in the region’s most cut-throat league.
Think: Bad News Bears meets Erin Brokovich, but the instead of hexavalent chromium? The toxin our heroine is fighting is the idea that some families and some kids are just inherently better than others.
BIO
With a childhood spent moving between life with her Mormon single mom in Utah and her world-traveling, hard-partying dad in California, Keri developed a knack for flexibility and a passion for the wildly diverse people and worldviews that fuel her characters and stories today.
As a newspaper and magazine journalist, Keri has profiled everyone from award-winning authors and artists to an 11-year-old county fair livestock champion and an eerily accurate tarot reader named Taco. Today, she works as a freelance writer for nonprofit and film industry publications, including the P.G.A.’s flagship magazine ProducedBy.
In addition to earning a master’s degree in English from Claremont Graduate University, Keri has taken courses in film, writing, and acting at UCLA and UC Irvine.
She currently studies stand-up and improv in Long Beach, California, where she lives with her partner, their son, and two deeply enthusiastic dogs.
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