Kate Herzlin is a New York-based playwright, screenwriter and comedy writer who overuses the rule of three. She co-wrote the contemporary children’s musical Peter Pan and Wendy: The Neverland Takeover with composer Ben Kapilow, which premiered at The Media Theatre and was performed at ACT of Connecticut.
She writes for the BoogieManja Sketch team, Attainable Crush, and has studied with Second City, UCB, and The PIT. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Belladonna Comedy, Weekly Humorist, Little Old Lady Comedy, Points in Case, and the craft bartending resource site, A Bar Above. Her pilot, Halle Had Cancer, OK? a was named a Finalist for both the Athena Film Festival Writer’s Lab and the Scriptation Showcase Teleplay Awards, as well as a Semifinalist for the ScreenCraft Fellowship, the ScreenCraft Pilot Awards, the Cinequest Screenwriting Awards, and the CineStory TV Fellowship. Her pilot Bubbe Fraud was named a Top Ten Finalist for the Cinequest Screenwriting Awards.
Her co-written feminist joke book, Jokes To Offend Men, was published in Fall 2022 by Andrews McMeel Publishing—inspired by the McSweeney’s piece Jokes I’ve Told That My Male Colleagues Didn’t Like, which was named in the McSweeney’s Top 20 of 2020.
Jokes to Offend Men was named the #2 Comedy Book of 2022 by Vulture and called “not that funny” by a man online who didn’t read it, so clearly we’re doing something right.
Kate Herzlin writes things! 