About
Katie A. King is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning Executive Producer working in a wide variety of formats, from docuseries to talk shows to branded content, with a focus on social issues and women-centered stories. She also maintains and updates this website all by herself, and asks that you please humor her as she writes in third person about herself.
Most recently, Katie was the showrunner of the hit docuseries “One Night in Idaho: The College Murders” for Amazon Prime, in collaboration with Story Syndicate, and directed by Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin. She’s also recently consulted and EP’d on projects for Netflix, HBO, and independent feature documentaries, including “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,” which is nominated for 2 Critics Choice Documentary Awards.
In 2022, Katie served as EP/Showrunner on WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY, a highly acclaimed and award-winning 4-part docuseries for Showtime, directed by W. Kamau Bell. The series premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and received awards from the Peabody Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, Hollywood Critics Association, Gotham Awards, IDAs, Cinema Eye, ReelBlack, and the Gracies. The series was nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys, a TCA award, and the Independent Spirit Awards.
She has developed and co-created multiple TV projects, including a series based on Rebecca Traister’s acclaimed book “All the Single Ladies,” and a formatted reality series uplifting single mothers, which ended up beig produced for Hallmark.
Just before the pandemic, Katie produced a narrative short film in conjunction with the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge in LA. Leading an all female crew of 26 women, they completed a short film in just four days. Prior to that, she was thrilled to produce documentary content for Rihanna’s ground – breaking “Savage X Fenty” Amazon special, during NY Fashion Week.
Katie produced the premiere episode of the acclaimed CNN Decades series, “The Eighties,” garnering the second-highest premiere ever for CNN’s original programming at the time.
In 2015, she was among the first team of filmmakers paired with Cuban marine scientists to produce a Shark Week documentary in Cuba.
In addition to producing, Katie also enjoys photography and writing, and has been published in the LA Times.
Prior to moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Film & TV, she served a year with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, and taught Video Production (mostly how to make music videos) to middle and high school students in Hawaii.
Katie originally hails from Connecticut (Go Huskies!), and holds a Bachelor of Science from James Madison University in Media Arts & Design. Upon moving to LA, she enrolled in the TV & Film Screenwriting program at UCLA Extension.
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