KAT COOPER
As a member of The Story Farm, DCTV, and Women in Film and Video, Kat Cooper is a long-tenured writer of screenplays, short fiction, and poetry, with a particular focus in the former on thrillers and drama aimed at millennials and younger generations.
She recently began directing, specializing the narrative horror films. Her recent documentary “Fear Itself” that gives a look into Laurel’s House of Horror has developed traction earning “Best Documentary and Best Director” at the 2018 VideoScream International Film Festival and the Winner at the 2019 DC Addy Awards.
Cooper’s written body of work has earned her numerous accolades such as finalist, quarter-finalist, and top 10 finishes in various contests, including last year’s Fresh Voice Screenplay Competition and Breaking the Walls Thriller Competition as well as this year’s 13Horror.com Short Screenplay Contest. In September, she will be competing as a finalist in the DC Shorts Screenplay Competition.
Kat is currently completing a Master of Arts in Film and Media Arts at American University and her fourth feature screenplay.