Karen Leigh Hopkins became a writer, director, and producer because she repeatedly got cut out of films like The Breakfast Club and Three Amigos, and didn\u2019t want to go back to Sandusky, Ohio, and work on a factory line like her mother.\xa0
With twenty-one bucks to her name, out of desperation, she wrote a screenplay in 12 days and sold it \u201covernight\u201d which launched her writing career.\xa0
Karen\u2019s writing credits include Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, Stepmom, Because I Said So, and Miss Meadows, which she also directed. Karen also wrote and directed A Woman\u2019s a Helluva Thing. She received an Emmy nomination for Showtime\u2019s What Girls Learn, and she won the Humanitas Award for ABC Family\u2019s Searching For David\u2019s Heart. She also sold and produced a branded series for the Web with Sony/Crackle.\xa0
Karen co-wrote a series of films with Eleanor Coppola called Love is Love is Love, and she was a writer-associate producer on the Apple series Little Voice.
Recently, she sold a series called Aqua Tofana to Netflix, for which she is writing the pilot. She\u2019s also writing a feature called Twisted Sister for Sony. And she wrote a horror film, Lil Holly O, that she hopes to direct.\xa0
Beyond film and TV, Karen\u2019s also working on a book of short stories that cover subjects very meaningful to her like the 99c store, her dog, the miserable state of politics, evil people that get away with evil things, the theater of sex, and more.