Karen Walton

Karen Walton
Born
Halifax, Nova Scotia
NationalityCanadian
OccupationScreenwriter

Karen Walton is a Canadian screenwriter best known for writing the film, Ginger Snaps, for which she won the Best Film Writing Canadian Comedy Award in 2002.[1] Her writing for the film received both critical scrutiny[2] and academic analysis.[3] Walton has since been recognised with multiple awards.[4] She has also written for the Canadian television series What It's Like Being Alone[5] and three episodes of the American version of Queer as Folk, for which she also served as executive story consultant. She appeared in the 2009 documentary Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror.[6] In recent years, she has served as a writer and producer on a number of Canadian television series including Flashpoint, The Listener and Orphan Black, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide and airs on BBC America in the United States.[7]

  1. ^ "Canadian Comedy Awards (2002)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  2. ^ Ernest 2013, p. 19.
  3. ^ Molloy, Patricia (2007). "Perpetual flight: the terror of biology and biology of terror in the Ginger Snaps trilogy". www.ejumpcut.org. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
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  5. ^ Gorman, Brian (29 July 2006). "The Lighter Side of Solitude". National Post, page TO.30.F. Toronto, Ontario,
  6. ^ "Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror (2009)". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  7. ^ Knight, Kristina (2018-07-20). "Watch Orphan Black Online: How to Stream Full Episodes". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2018-11-05.