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About This Katherine Person
My first real job after graduating with an MFA in English was as editor-in-chief of an Australian computer gaming magazine.
In 1995 Reed Books published my book Surf’s Up: Internet Australian Style which sold out in a week and went on to be reprinted two more times. This helped me earn a scholarship to do post-graduate research in computer-mediated storytelling at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology for which I received a PhD.
I have a quirky sense of humour that helped to sell my non-fiction. Fiction editors, however, seem to be a po-faced lot. So three unpublished novels later, I walked away from the industry and into stand-up comedy and TheatreSports. Either you’re funny or you’re not with stand-up, and it’s the audience who decide.
This change of direction has set a whole lot of strange events into motion. I decided to try my hand at sketch comedy and experiment with vodcasting the event. The event, though a bit amateurish, had a sell-out show and plenty of good word of mouth. We decided to try again. By the time I put together all the elements to do a better job, we had everything we needed to make a film-festival style full-length mockumentary. So we thought, why not? This project is still in post-production.
Making the movie led to my connecting with a producer who had me write scripts and do story development for a local animation company and Nickelodeon. Writing the scripts made me cocky enough to enter a national screenplay pitch competition for which I won the state division. This has led to me putting together a pitch promo reel for a comedy TV series. So, who knows what’s coming next?