Kai Wu

Kai Wu is a Taiwanese-American television writer.

She is well known for her work on the NBC horror series Hannibal, and for The CW superhero series The Flash.

Life and career

Born in Taiwan, Wu was raised in Salisbury, Maryland. She attended Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in fictional literature. After college, she moved to Los Angeles and was hired as an agency assistant.^[1]

Her first job in film was as an editorial assistant post-production coordinator on Danny Leiner's The Great New Wonderful. She then segued to television; working as an assistant to executive producers on the Syfy reboot Flash Gordon. She later went on to become an assistant to Matt Nix on USA's Burn Notice.

Hannibal

In 2013, Wu interviewed for an assistant position on the NBC Hannibal Lecter series Hannibal, but was instead hired as a staff writer by developer Bryan Fuller. Wu had previously written a pilot that was "a love letter" to Fuller titled Memory Bank, which he read and led to her hire. She went on to contribute to two episodes of the series ("Entrée" and "Naka-Choko").^[2][1]

The Flash

Wu serves as a writer on the DC Comics produced CW series The Flash. Her first contribution to the series was co-writing, with co-creator Geoff Johns, the first season episode "Going Rogue", which introduces the supervillain Captain Cold/Leonard Snart (Wentworth Miller). She and Johns co-wrote the season's 10th installment, "Revenge of the Rogues", which saw the introduction of infamous rogue Heatwave. She co-contributed, with Brooke Eikmeier, the teleplay for the sixteenth episode, "Rogue Time", with a story by story editor Grainne Godfree. Her and Godfree re-teamed to co-pen the 18th installment "All Star Team Up"; which saw a crossover with sister-series Arrow.

In January 2015, Wu began writing, along with executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and Lauren Certo, the prequel comic book series The Flash: Season Zero.

References

External links

Kai Wu at the Internet Movie Database