Katie Boyer
Personal Profile
Katie Boyer has been through several incarnations as a writer. Small town journalist and college newspaper editor. Newsletter writer from foreign shores. Graduate student in comparative literature, teacher of composition and lit survey classes. Lecturer and blogger. Most recently a writer of stories and screenplays. A word for every situation, in other words.
To Screen Door, Katie brings an eye for fully developed characters and well-told stories, be they small, medium, or large. With a strong editing background and workshop and collaboration experience, she’s ready to help you bring your project to the world.
Production Experience
2023
Feature,
Assistant Production Office Coordinator
2023
Feature,
Production Secretary
2022
Feature,
Assistant Production Office Coordinator
2022
Short Film,
Unit Production Manager
2022
Short Film,
Supervising Producer
2022
Short Film,
Supervising Producer
2021
Short Film,
Writer,
Executive Producer
2018
Short Film,
Writer,
Executive Producer
2016
Short Film,
Writer,
Executive Producer
In this Hallmark Movies & Mysteries story, aspiring graduate student Naima meets Damian, a handsome man with connections in the Nashville recording industry. Together they uncover a musical secret from a history shared by their families.
Pinewood Splitter
One part of a feature-length horror / comedy anthology. Members of 80s rock band Sonic Doom stumble upon a cursed town and a creepy cemetery on their way to a rural gig.
Directed by Kris Phipps and Jarrod Yerkes of Garth Manor.
Set in Baltimore in the late 1980s, “The Old Lady & The Boxer” tells the story of Joe Saturn, a former Texas roughneck on the run from his previous life and looking to evolve from brawler to professional boxer. A sharp-tongued old lady, Audrey, helps him rediscover his self-respect when he loses it in the ring. Joe is also guided by his celebrated boxing coach, ‘Alley-Oop’ Simpson, and Alley’s right hand man, Lenny.
Turn Around
A woman running errands tries to go back when she forgets something, only to find herself somewhere different every time she turns around.
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Official Selection, Sidewalk Film Festival, 2022
Mike, a small-time drug dealer, is fed up with casually insensitive remarks from his sometime business partner Felix. Using the promise of a strain called "Garden of the Gods," Mike lures Felix from a party to an empty home, where he meets his reckoning behind a steadily-growing cinder block wall.
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Winner, "Best Horror," Georgia Shorts Film Festival, 2021
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Winner, "Best Actor" (Marley Gregory) and "Best Director," Southern Horror Film Festival, 2021
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Finalist, "Best Dark Drama," Austin After Dark Film Festival, 2021
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Semi-Finalist, Dumbo Film Festival, 2021
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Official Selection: Sidewalk Film Festival, Anomaly - The Rochester Genre Film Festival, Upstate NY Horror Film Festival
Lora Meets Jonas
An aspiring pastry chef out with her bossy sister and her sister's friends makes a connection with a witty bartender.
I See the Stars
For Ethan and his father James, abstract disagreements about religious faith suddenly become concrete when Ethan’s mother dies. As they sort her things, Ethan and James wrestle with years of pent-up hostility and seek ways to comfort each other despite their irreconcilably different worldviews.
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Official Selection, Johnson City Film Festival, 2019
Work & Leadership Experience
2016-2022
Coordinator
Jefferson State, Pioneer Con
Founded and organized an annual half-comic con, half-academic conference. Activities included drama performance, trivia competition, panels, lectures, gaming, cosplay, writing contests.
2007-2022
English Instructor
2018-2022
Director
2018-2022
Editor
2011-2022
Advisor
2001-2000
Intern
2000-2001
Student Coordinator
1999-2000
Editor-in-Chief
Jefferson State Community College
Taught courses in composition, literature (American, British, World), and creative writing.
Jefferson State, Red Mountain Reading Series
Ran a college-wide program that invited 3-4 visiting writers each spring semester to read from and discuss their work.
Jefferson State, Wingspan magazine
Processed submissions and designed layout for an annual literary and arts magazine open to Jefferson State students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Jefferson State, Sigma Kappa Delta
Charter member and faculty advisor for international English honor society for two-year colleges. Maintained membership roll, recruited officers, taught leadership class, advised service projects and fundraisers. Grew chapter to be one of the largest and most active in the United States.
Ukrainian Education Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Coordinated English conversation and grammar classes, assisted in cataloging multi-language library. Taught "University Study Skills" course at International Christian University.
Conversations Program, Lipscomb University
Coordinated lectures, panels, and a reading series for a campus-wide, interdisciplinary academic program.
The Babbler, Lipscomb University
Wrote feature and news stories, designed layout, coordinated staff for a weekly tabloid publication.
Education
2016
2005
2001
Master of Fine Arts, Fiction
Spalding University
Louisville, Kentucky
Master of Arts, Comparative Literature
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Bachelor of Arts, English
Lipscomb University,
Nashville, Tennessee