Christy's Got Cancer!
When Kate’s hypochondriac, maelstrom of a self-involved mother gets the kind of news no one (but her) wants, Kate must marshal her family’s collective dysfunctional superpowers to come up with a care plan and resolve their relationship in time.
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Kim TurnerWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:Comedy, dark comedy
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Number of Pages:113
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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The Writers LabNew York, NY
September 1, 2015
Finalist -
Austin Film FestivalAustin, TX
October 1, 2016
Second Rounder -
Sundance Screenwriting LabPark City, Utah
July 1, 2011
Advanced to second round
Kim Turner is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory in Chicago, Second City’s writing program and IO’s (formerly Improv Olympic) writing programs. She’s performed improv and written sketches for almost 20 years and her screenplay, Christy’s Got Cancer!, was selected for the inaugural Meryl Streep Screenwriters’ Lab (and the only comedy!). It went to the second round of competition at the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab and was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival. The Nicholl Fellowship told her not to quit her day job. Most recently, she accidentally hit David Pasquesi (known in Chicago as ‘Improv Jesus’) in the face with her purse onstage while doing a performance of His Girl Friday. She has performed and written with venerated and talented people from all over the improv, television and film communities in Chicago and New York but has not had a screenplay produced… yet.