The Writer:
Katie Dippold is one of the top comedy writers of the day. She started out as a staff writer for Mad TV, and now she’s the scribe behind the highly-anticipated all-female Ghostbusters reboot, along with director Paul Feig. She also wrote seven episodes on one of our all-time favorite shows, Parks and Recreation. In short, she’s a badass.
Credits:
The Heat 2 (written by) - announced
Ghostbusters (written by) (post-production) - 2016
The Heat (written by) - 2013
Parks and Recreation (TV Series) (written by - 7 episodes) - 2009-2012
MADtv (TV Series) (writer - 54 episodes) - 2006-2009
Quotes:
Parks and Recreation was extremely female friendly - I was writing for a female lead and there’s four women on staff at a time. Plus all the men were feminist and women supporters. And then with The Heat, Paul Feig is also female friendly - so my experiences have been very fortunate. I just try to be as proactive as I can. If I start feeling like it’s harder for females, that just lights a fire under me to work harder on a script to make it as good as I possibly can and therefore make it harder to turn down. For instance, I always wished there would be a buddy cop movie with women…so I decided I had to be the one to write it!
I was a huge fan of Bridesmaids. I remember seeing it at the cinema and just laughing so hard. To have a movie written by those women and starring Kristen Wiig delivers comedy from a point of view I haven’t heard in a while. There are so many jokes in Bridesmaids that I feel come from a woman’s experience. Like the opening scene, when she puts make-up on and crawls back into bed like she woke up like that - I just thought that was so refreshing.
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