Devon Kirkpatrick
An up-and-coming writer/director, Devon Kirkpatrick is a 2014 fellow at the American Film Institute´s Directing Workshop for Women, where she is in pre-production on the short film Ma/ddy. The story of ″a genderqueer widow [who] carries a child using their late wife´s embryo, creating a family that will forever link them to the love of their life,″ ″Ma/ddy″ is Kirkpatrick´s second narrative film project. Her first script, a queer road trip love story titled Out of Range, was selected as an Emerging Narrative for IFP Film Week in 2012 and in the No Borders category in 2013. ″I want to create diverse stories within the film and TV landscape by writing and directing films such as Ma/ddy and featuring non-gender-conforming protagonists,″ she explains. This former deputy publisher of GO has also forged a career in television, working in various roles on projects like Nurse Jackie, Law and Order and Girlfriend in a Coma. She directed and produced a two-year documentary project for the Centerstone Foundation, a nonprofit organization assisting incarcerated people with addiction or mental illness, before settling into her current role in creative development at Universal Television under Nurse Jackie creator/producer Liz Brixius. -KL
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