Ken Pisani

Producer and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Ken

Ken Pisani is an Emmy-nominated TV producer and screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and comic book creator. Ken has sold network pilots and feature screenplays, events that expired with little fanfare. His Los Angeles Times best-selling debut novel “AMP’D,” published by St. Martin’s Press, was a finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He’s also the writer-creator of the Geekie Award-winning sci-fi graphic novel “COLONUS,” published by Dark Horse Comics, and the quirky mystery novella “4 Corners,” available on Kindle and recently optioned for television.

His original play, “Glove Story,” about retired rival boxers of the civil rights era, was a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and selected for the 2014 D.C. Black Theatre Festival. He recently completed a feature screenplay telling the true story of the Rwandan cycling team, co written with David Seidler, Oscar-winner for “The King’s Speech.” Ken is also Writer and co-Executive Producer of “Unexpected Justice,” a PBS documentary on the early career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. He’s also written the feature adaptation, currently under option.

His recent novel, “The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikolai Pushkin,” (pub date TBD) is a decades-spanning farce based on true events. He recently completed a new novel, “Days Are Here Again,” and is working on a variety of film and TV projects. Ken is represented by Mary Pender at UTA and Mitchell Waters at Brandt & Hochman in New York.

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"Two Weeks Notice" Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy After a meltdown at her surprise 50th birthday party, a distressed woman teams up with an unlikely Gen-Z counterpart to podcast her daily attempts to shake up her ordinary life across a two week train wreck. (Co-written with Eliza Huberth)
"Family Run" Action ⋄ Comedy After 30 years in prison, a hard-bitten ex-con is paroled into an unrecognizable world of technology and social change—and the reluctant custody of his estranged son, a tech company leader. But when a shadowy government agency targets the son for a series of cyber attacks, only his analog dad can save him.
"Justice" Budget: $5M - $10M | Biography True story of the 1969 corruption trial that might have ended the career of attorney John Paul Stevens, but instead launched him to a seat on the US Supreme Court.
"Power Groove is Back!" Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy A superhero satire with a rock star metaphor. When all of Earth's modern superheroes are annihilated in an alien invasion, the greatest supergroup of the late ‘80s reluctantly reunites to save the world, if they can only stop arguing over all the bad blood that broke them up in the first place. (Based on the webcomic "Power Groove")