Katharine Henner is an LA-based filmmaker and playwright, who built an art commune and made perfume at a top fragrance house in New York. She is the co-writer and director of the short film, No Man’s Land. She co-wrote and co-directed the cult web series Nights In Ultraviolet that was described by Vulture as “If Twin Peaks and Seinfeld had a baby and moved to Brooklyn.” Katharine’s plays have been staged in both London and New York. Her play Brighter the Star was selected for the Samuel French 40th Off Off Broadway Play Festival as one of 30 out of thousands of submissions around the world. Her circus comedy play For Your Amusement was written into 3 versions, with 3 different engagements in New York, developed first in London as a staged reading with BAFTA-award winning director Kfir Yfet. She has won several 24-hour play festivals, most notably with her comedy Monozy Goat and comedic horror The Ubi, the latter for which she stayed up late to learn Esperanto.

She received her Master’s Degree in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. She was a finalist for The Orchard Project TV Episodic Lab and the New Orleans Writers Residency.

Katharine writes stories in the genre space (sci-fi, fantasy, horror) with a comedic, satirical bent. While her work often pokes fun at and provokes our current culture and societal institutions, the deep empathy she creates for her characters is where she thrives. Themes of identity, longing for love, and found family are explored in her work. Her favorite genre to work in is what she calls “soul-fi” or soul fiction—grounded sci-fi that’s constantly seeking, “Is there more to life than this?” Her world-building is unique and inclusive, and sometimes she’ll explore it beyond the medium of writing…