Kat Coiro is an award winning film director, writer & producer whose films have played at festivals worldwide, including at Tribeca and Cannes. She attended Carnegie Mellon University and the Moscow Art Theater for history and directing. She was also accepted as a fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory.
Kat directed the 2011 feature film L!fe Happens starring Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson, Justin Kirk, Geoff Stults, Kristen Johnson, Rhys Coiro, Seymour Cassell and Jason Biggs. She also directed the 2010 Funny or Die Viral Video Idiots with Kate Bosworth, Zoe Saldana, Janeane Garofalo, and Greg Grunberg as well as the 2009 film Kidnapping Caitlynn, which premiered at the Method Fest and won the Accolade Competition's 2009 Award of Merit [1][2]. The film stars Jason Biggs,Jenny Mollen and Julie Benz and it was adapted into a webseries called Ex-Appeal.
Her directorial debut, adapted from a short story by Emily Raboteau, entitled Murdering Mama's Boy,[3] starring Joely Fisher, won the Accolade Competition's 2007 Award of Excellence, premiered at the 2008 Vail Film Festival and screened at 20 other festivals.
Additionally Kat produced Tom Everett Scott's directorial debut entitled: Glock and wrote and directed No Place, Ca starring Abby Brammell.