Edward Kay

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Edward Kay is a Toronto-based writer with a background in both live-action and animated television comedy, as well as print journalism.

Kay spent four years as a writer and producer on the political satire, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, before becoming supervising producer of The Itch, a comedy series starring Jason Jones of The Daily Show, and Jessica Holmes. Kay then co-created the animated children’s series, Ollie’s Under-the-Bed Adventures (later known as Olliver’s Adventures) and wrote the pilot episode, which won a Gemini Award for Best Animated Program. He has written numerous episodes of Atomic Betty, a television series broadcast in more than 100 countries. With Sean Scott, he is the co-creator of Jimmy Two Shoes, an animated comedy series that in December of 2007, was ordered into production by broadcasters Jetix and Teletoon.

Kay’s writing for This Hour Has 22 Minutes has garnered him three Gemini Awards,^[1]^[2]^[3] a Canadian Comedy Award,^[4] and a Canadian Screenwriting Award.^[5] His print journalism work has received two Canadian National Magazine Award Honourable Mentions.