Katherine Boutry

Katherine Boutry (aka Katherine Boutry Hart and Katherine Hart) has been working since July 2019 for RTI (Radio Television Ivoirienne) and Imagis Productions as show runner for 30 episodes of the new series in French, Nyala (2022), based on Ivoirienne author Stella Sanogoh's short story collection, "Si Je Te Disais." Her original pilot "The Virgins" was optioned first by Sundance in 2015 and then by Radar Pictures in 2017. She has a passion for adapting original material. She is adapting author Nancy Goldstone's books for series on Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette. She recently completed a drama pilot Boone, and was named a Harvardwood Writer to Watch 2021. She is working on a miniseries about the original female astronauts from the 1960s, the Mercury 13. Recently, she was selected by Julia Glass to adapt the author's best-selling novels "Three Junes" and "A Dark and Sacred Night" as a limited series for television. She was nominated by Amazon Studios and was a finalist for the 2017 Nantucket Screenwriters' Colony. In 2015, Katherine Boutry was hired by Canal+ as show runner for the Canal A+ series Vert Olive in the Ivory Coast. She oversaw the writing of 26 episodes in French, worked with the director and cast in Abidjan. She developed an original series co-produced by Canal+ and Urban Brew Studios of South Africa, Afrikland. Katherine received her PhD in English at Harvard University where she taught literature and screenwriting for five years before moving to Los Angeles to develop a pilot based on a Meg Cabot book series for the Oxygen Network. She then staffed on the series 1-800-Missing (2003) and R.L. Stine's the Haunting Hour (2010). Her spec scripts for Dexter (2006) and The Sopranos (1999) were top two finalists at the Austin Film Festival. She was also a fellow in the Warner Brothers Drama Writing Program. As a graduate student, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to the Czech Republic. As an educator, she created and directed the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles. She also teaches and serves as the Director of the Creativity Studies Lab at West Los Angeles College. She is the creator of The Creativity Lab Podcast (2022) (Season 1:14 episodes to be released June 1, 2022). She is author of the college textbook "The West Guide to Writing."