From crime to mysteries and thrillers, Kelly Jo Brick has a passion for telling underdog stories, digging in and exploring the struggles of characters who have to grit, scrape and fight to survive and do so with heart, drive and perseverance.
Originally from a small town in Wisconsin’s dairy country, Kelly Jo developed a love for storytelling when she’d gather up her stuffed animals and horse models as a tyke and create adventure after adventure for them.
As a television and documentary writer, Kelly Jo wrote the Telly Award winning film PAUSE, the Frank Lloyd Wright documentary The Jewel in the Woods and the short thriller, Wreckage.
Kelly Jo is Vice Chair of the WGAW Genre Committee and is a Sundance Intensive Fellow. She’s also an alum of the Women In Film Writer/Showrunner Mentoring Circle and is a graduate of both the FBI and LAPD community academies.
As a contributing writer for Final Draft, Kelly Jo pens the interview series The Bricks of Breaking In where she speaks with TV and film writers about their experiences getting started in entertainment. She’s been a panelist for the Austin Film Festival, Wisconsin Writers Institute and Stage 32.
Kelly Jo earned a B.A. in Communications and English-Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin and played trombone in the highly acclaimed Wisconsin Marching Band.