Biography

Kristen Joy Bjorge is a screenwriter and playwright who began her career consulting for several years on scripts for the late, Oscar-nominated actor Chadwick Boseman, amongst other talent. Kristen’s feature screenplay, Notable People, advanced in the Academy Nicholl fellowship, and is now in development. Her work will next be seen as one of the writers on Pretty Boy, an LGBT+ coming-of-age feature from Sundance Alum producer Tara Ansley, which is set for production September 2021. She recently wrapped writing a feature for Vinita Pictures, and works frequently in the feature film space on rewrites and original work.

Kristen has been a visiting artist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, teaching MFA and senior BFA actors and writers in their renowned theatre department. She will return this October to workshop one of her plays, in addition to teaching.

A native Midwesterner of Chilean & Norwegian descent, Kristen grew up in a peninsula of corn in a small, Illinois town. As a queer woman, Kristen’s writing mainly explores female-identifying characters whose perspectives have been traditionally ignored, especially queer women of the baby boomer generation and women of color. In her spare time, she enjoys fitness of all kinds, swimming, and obscure craft beer.

More about the Boomer Cycle

Redline Collection is a part of a bigger cycle focused on a lives of a group of primarily queer women born in the 1940s and 1950s and how their lives evolve over the course of eight decades. So far, two of the plays have been written (Redline Collection and The Book Club).