Keri Lee writes rowdy, character-driven genre stories that ask pesky existential questions like …. does humanity actually deserve to survive?
Her horror-comedy feature, RAT BASTARDS, was Best Comedy Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival and in the top 10% in the Nicholl Fellowships. CAGE LIFE, her manic underdog fight comedy, was a finalist in Final Draft Big Break, The Writers Lab, and Shore Scripts.
Keri is a former journalist who covered everything from landmine-detection robots to the secret life of stunt pilots. She currently writes for technology nonprofits and film industry publications, including the Producers Guild of America’s flagship publication, ProducedBy.
PROJECTS
Feature Screenplays
RAT BASTARDS (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.
CAGE LIFE (sports 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/sports comedy)
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, she has profiled everyone from computing pioneers and celebrated poets to pre-teen livestock champions eyeing a return to the county fair.
In addition to earning a master’s degree in English literature, Keri has studied film, writing, and acting at UCLA and UC Irvine. She is an alum of the Community of Writers Fiction Workshop and the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab.
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