Michelle Lovretta is a Canadian television writer and producer best known as the creator and executive producer of the television series Lost Girl and Killjoys.[1][2] She has also written for Instant Star, Relic Hunter, Mutant X and The Secret Circle.[3]
She was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2011 for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series for Lost Girl, and also in 2006 for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for the made-for-TV movie Hunt for Justice .[4] In 2018 she was nominated for an Aurora Award for Best Visual Presentation for Killjoys Season 3.[4]
Lovretta sold a feature film script called The Fishing Trip when she was 21 and in a screenwriting course at York University.[5][6][7] She was selected to be a resident in a TV training program offered by the Canadian Film Centre and run by Norman Jewison in 1999 to teach people how to write for television.[6] At the end of the residency her script for a program called Sherpa Love was purchased by CBC.[6]