Writer, Director, Gadabout
Kaitlin Fontana is an Emmy-nominated TV and film writer, director, and producer, and a National Magazine award-winning essayist. In a past life, she was a music journalist. She was the host of the WGAE's podcast OnWriting for seasons 4-6.
Kaitlin is an alum of the 2024 Sundance Feature Development Lab, and her script IS THIS YOU? is on the 2024 Black List. Her first Black List script, GIRLFRIEND ON MARS, is in development with Party Over Here. Kaitlin’s directorial debut, FRANCHESCA, was an official Sundance Film Festival selection. She is the writer and a producer of the true crime-meets-punk podcast PETER AND THE ACID KING, which was named a Best Podcast of 2023 by Vulture. She is a NYTVF Development Deal recipient (Audible) and a finalist in the HBOAccess Directing Fellowship. Kaitlin is a WriteHer List Honoree, an inaugural WGA/Made in New York Writers Room Fellow, Showtime Tony Cox Award winner, Nantucket Comedy Colonist, and Bitch List Honoree. She was a Field Producer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
Kaitlin lives in San Francisco, CA and was born in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada, a distinction she shares with Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.
