Kit Steinkellner (born 1986) is an American playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for the 2018

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series '' Sorry for Your Loss'' and her award-winning comic ''Quince''. She previously wrote on the

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'' Z: The Beginning of Everything'', and was nominated for the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics in 2018.

Background and education

Steinkellner, raised in Santa Barbara, California, graduated in 2004 from

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. She received her BFA in theatre from

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in 2008, and her MFA from the

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Career

While at

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, Steinkellner began writing plays, culminating in the 2008 production of ''Quixotic'' by The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble. Her plays ''Adeline's Play'' and ''The Good Prisoner'' were also produced by the prestigious troupe. In 2015, she was hired as a staff writer on the

TV series Z: The Beginning of Everything. In 2016, she sold a pilot entitled ''Widow'' to

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. That pilot eventually became '' Sorry for Your Loss'', which

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ordered to series on February 9, 2018, and premiere on their

platform on September 18, 2018. On December 13, 2018, it was announced that ''Sorry for Your Loss'' had been renewed for a second season, with Steinkellner remaining as the show runner.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Steinkellner, Kit American women dramatists and playwrights American women screenwriters 1986 births Living people Writers from Santa Barbara, California Screenwriters from California University of California, Los Angeles alumni Westmont College alumni 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American screenwriters