Nationality American Area(s) Writer, Producer | Name Ken Kristensen | |
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Notable works Todd, The Ugliest Kid on EarthIndestructibleJail Awards Academy Nicholl Fellowships in ScreenwritingEzra Litwak Award for Distinction in Screenwriting, Columbia UniversityColumbia University Best Teleplay Award Books Todd, the Ugliest Kid on Earth, Todd, The Ugliest Kid On Earth Vol 2, Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth Vol. 1 | ||
Ken kristensen talks pitching tv
Ken Kristensen is an Academy Nicholl-award-winning screenwriter, TV writer, and comic book author.
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- Ken kristensen talks pitching tv
- Part 1 of 4 kyle higgins brian buccellato ken kristensen writers panel amazing arizona comic con
- Career
- Television
- FIlm
- Writer
- Director
- References
He is most well known for writing episodes of the television series' The Punisher (Netflix/Marvel) and Happy! (SyFy) and authoring comic book series published by Image Comics, IDW Publishing, and Dark Horse Comics. His television pilots have been developed at FX, A&E, Spike, and Pivot TV.
Kristensen is also a member of the Writers Guild of America West, Producers Guild of America, The Animation Guild, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Part 1 of 4 kyle higgins brian buccellato ken kristensen writers panel amazing arizona comic con
Career
Ken Kristensen received an MFA in 2008 from Columbia University Film School. While still in film school he was selected to both the Sundance and IFP labs, and worked as an associate producer under Gary Winick (Charlotte's Web) and Mark Waters (Mean Girls).
After graduating, Ken won the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and was a finalist for the Disney Feature Fellowship. He was hired by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon to write for The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist (a graphic novel spinoff of Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), and is slated for a fall 2015 release by Dark Horse Comics.
Ken co-created the critical and commercial hit Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth — an Image Comics (The Walking Dead) series with his longtime creative partner, Eisner-nominated comic book artist M.K. Perker. In 2016, FX purchased the series and commissioned Kristensen to write the pilot. Several other Image Comics series are currently in development.
In 2014 Ken was hired to write Indestructible, a monthly super-hero comic book series created by Jeff Kline (Transformers Prime) and published by IDW/Darby Pop Publishing.
In 2015 Kristensen co-wrote and produced the short film Ronnie BoDean with director Steve Judd, starring Wes Studi.
Marvel's The Punisher -- a Netflix TV series created by Steve Lightfoot, starring Jon Bernthal, based off the comic book, began production in 2016 with Kristensen on board as a writer.
Kristensen wrote Fairy Godbrothers, a hard cover graphic novel illustrated by M.K. Perker and published by Adaptive Books, August 2017.
In 2017 Scout Comics announced it would be publishing Kristensen's comic book series Firewater, a western noir crime saga based on the first FBI undercover operation, with art by M.K. Perker.
In 2017 Kristensen joined the writing staff of Happy! -- a SyFy TV series, starring Christopher Meloni, based on the comic book published by Image Comics, and created by Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor, produced by Original Film and Universal Cable Productions.
Television
In addition to being a writer on The Punisher (Netflix/Marvel) and Happy! (SyFy), Ken served as Producer on four seasons of Jail (Spike), two seasons of Inside American Jail (TruTV), and the TV special Road Warriors (Spike). He has also produced pilots for FX, A&E, Discovery Channel, Spike TV, and Pivot TV.