Katie Jefferis is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and film educator whose work centers authentic female experience through psychologically rich, character-driven stories.

 

She is the author of five feature-length screenplays, including MIND GAMES, a drama exploring psychotic depression and benzodiazepine withdrawal; ALICE, a biopic of painter Alice Neel; PANCAKES FOR ONE, a comedy about an uptight anthropologist who inherits a clown school; and MOTHER OF THE WORLD, set in a future matriarchal society. She wrote, directed, and produced the short film YARD SALE, a Feirstein Faculty Select.

 

As both a writer and collaborator, she creates complex roles for actresses while building women-led creative teams. Most recently, she taught Screenwriting at Northwestern University. She holds a B.A. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in Filmmaking from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.