Keri Lee writes rowdy, often bloody genre stores driven by dark humor and broken heroes. She is especially fascinated by the unexpected communities that form when damaged people, desperate circumstances, and existential panic collide.
Her horror feature, RAT BASTARDS, was Best Comedy Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival and top 10% in the Nicholl Fellowships. CAGE LIFE, her manic underdog fight feature, was a finalist in Final Draft Big Break, The Writers Lab, and Shore Scripts.
Keri is currently writing a holiday horror feature about a hospice worker and a rent-a-cop who team up to take down a fascistic HOA run by vampires.
PROJECTS
Feature Screenplays
RAT BASTARDS (horror)
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.
CAGE LIFE (sports)
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/sports)
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 coaching 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 hero is fighting is the idea that some families 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 computing pioneers and celebrated poets to pre-teen livestock raisers chasing ribbons at the county fair.
Today, Keri works as a freelance writer in the nonprofit and tech sectors. In addition to earning a master’s degree in English literature, she has studied film, writing, and acting at UCLA and UC Irvine.
She remains endlessly curious about the stories we tell ourselves about who belongs, who doesn’t, and whether the distance between us is real or imagined — or simply profitable.
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