Kaitlin McLaughlin is an award-winning writer and producer living in Los Angeles. In 2011, she was selected to participate in the Screenwriters Colony Writers-in-Residence Program and Film Independent’s Screenwriters Lab. Her screenplay, The Murphys, received the 2011 Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay from the Nantucket Film Festival. Currently, McLaughlin is in pre-production on her independent thriller, POCHA, which she will also co-direct. In addition to her dramatic works, McLaughlin has co-written, Black Friday, a comedy about the busiest (and funniest) shopping day of the year.

McLaughlin is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BFA in Film Production at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, where she graduated with honors. Her senior thesis film, Change, earned an award from the Biarritz International Film Festival. Before relocating to Los Angeles, McLaughlin taught film editing at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.