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Kay Cannon is an American screenwriter and actress. She is known for writing the screenplays for the Pitch Perfect films, and her work as a writer and producer for the NBC series 30 Rock. She is also a co-executive producer and writer on New Girl.
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- Early life
- Acting
- Writing
- Directing
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
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Early life
Kay Cannon was raised in Custer Park, Illinois. She is the fifth of seven siblings. She graduated from Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, and received her BA in Theatre and MA in Education at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.
Acting
Cannon trained at The Second City, ImprovOlympic and ComedySportz. One of her first jobs was as a performer at ComedySportz.
She has performed sketch and improv for theaters including Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Second City in Chicago and Las Vegas, ImprovOlympic (West and Chicago) and at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles and New York.
Cannon starred in the independent film The Little Tin Man (2013). She has guest-starred on NBC's 30 Rock, New Girl, and Cristela.
She made a cameo in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and also appeared in the comedy How to Be Single (2016), starring Rebel Wilson and Dakota Johnson.
Writing
While performing and writing around Chicago, she met actress Tina Fey; a fellow Second City alumna. When Tina Fey began creating the NBC comedy 30 Rock, she brought Cannon to the writing staff and turned to Cannon. She eventually became supervising producer.
Cannon won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedic Series for her work on 30 Rock three times. In 2008, she won a Peabody Award for her work on the show. In 2010, Cannon was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. During this time, Cannon also worked as a co-producer on the feature film, Baby Mama (2008).
She moved from New York City to Los Angeles when she signed an overall development deal with 20th Century Fox. Within that deal, she worked as a co-executive producer on New Girl and currently works as a consulting producer on Cristela. As part of her development, Cannon sold a workplace comedy The Wrecking Crew to Fox and wrote the pilot The Runt for CBS.
Cannon's first produced feature screenplay was the a cappella comedy Pitch Perfect (2012). She wrote and co-produced the film's sequels, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).
Directing
Cannon made her directorial debut with The Pact. The film is scheduled to be released on April 20, 2018 by Universal Pictures.
Personal life
Cannon is divorced from actor Jason Sudeikis.
Cannon married Eben Russell on January 1, 2012 and the couple has one child together.