Catherine Clinch
Writer/Producer / Micro Content Creator / Social Media Strategy Consultant
Writer/Producer Catherine Clinch spent the early part of her career writing for hit television series including HUNTER, JAKE & THE FATMAN, KNIGHT RIDER, LOVE BOAT, HART TO HART, FOUL PLAY, TRUE CONFESSIONS and RESCUE BOTS.
She studied screenwriting with Sampson Raphaelson at Columbia University and honed her craft working for historic television luminaries including Aaron Spelling, Fred Silverman, Stephen J. Cannell, Alan Landsburg, Peter Roth and Kevin Reilly – all of whom hired her more than once. While earning 18 produced credits, the network greenlit her first draft into production 9 times. (That doesn’t happen very often.) But that was just her “day job.” At night, Catherine was a stand up “regular” at The Improv, The Comedy Store, and The Playboy Club (where she was conspicuously over-dressed).
After being “aged-out” of writing for television shortly after her 37 th birthday (and the birth of her third son), she pivoted into publishing and spent 12 of the first 13 years with the print version of Creative Screenwriting Magazine. She quickly moved up from Contributing Editor to Associate Publisher and co-coordinator of the first 5 years of Screenwriting Expo. In that capacity, she covered as many as 30-70 conferences and panels each year. Those conferences were a catalyst for her discovery of worlds outside the screenwriting silo. She gradually expanded her writing into all areas of media including marketing, technology, and mobile entertainment. That experience led to her invention of a mobile platform for which she was awarded three (utility) US Patents. KLIKZIT is a Story Delivery System and Method of Mobile Entertainment. It provides original entertainment content that enables seamless integration of brand message into a unique and
proprietary format that is professionally written, produced, and performed. Along the way, Catherine put on her academic hat and immersed herself in the study of social media strategy – specifically, why some pieces of content go viral while others don’t. She created and taught a professional certificate program in Social Media Strategy & Content Marketing at California State University Dominguez Hills. That program was recently adapted for use in the Innovation Incubator at CSUDH.
Currently, Catherine chairs the Writers Guild of America West Career Longevity Committee and serves on four other guild committees. Her recent scripted assignments include writing Stan Lee’s S.T.E.A.M. Squad for POW! Entertainment and the pilot for a one-hour dramedy series about two young, widowed moms raising their families together in a post-Covid world. In her spare time, she did the story and artwork for a graphic novel titled, A MILLENNIAL’S GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE.
Catherine is happily married with three sons.
She studied screenwriting with Sampson Raphaelson at Columbia University and honed her craft working for historic television luminaries including Aaron Spelling, Fred Silverman, Stephen J. Cannell, Alan Landsburg, Peter Roth and Kevin Reilly – all of whom hired her more than once. While earning 18 produced credits, the network greenlit her first draft into production 9 times. (That doesn’t happen very often.) But that was just her “day job.” At night, Catherine was a stand up “regular” at The Improv, The Comedy Store, and The Playboy Club (where she was conspicuously over-dressed).
After being “aged-out” of writing for television shortly after her 37 th birthday (and the birth of her third son), she pivoted into publishing and spent 12 of the first 13 years with the print version of Creative Screenwriting Magazine. She quickly moved up from Contributing Editor to Associate Publisher and co-coordinator of the first 5 years of Screenwriting Expo. In that capacity, she covered as many as 30-70 conferences and panels each year. Those conferences were a catalyst for her discovery of worlds outside the screenwriting silo. She gradually expanded her writing into all areas of media including marketing, technology, and mobile entertainment. That experience led to her invention of a mobile platform for which she was awarded three (utility) US Patents. KLIKZIT is a Story Delivery System and Method of Mobile Entertainment. It provides original entertainment content that enables seamless integration of brand message into a unique and
proprietary format that is professionally written, produced, and performed. Along the way, Catherine put on her academic hat and immersed herself in the study of social media strategy – specifically, why some pieces of content go viral while others don’t. She created and taught a professional certificate program in Social Media Strategy & Content Marketing at California State University Dominguez Hills. That program was recently adapted for use in the Innovation Incubator at CSUDH.
Currently, Catherine chairs the Writers Guild of America West Career Longevity Committee and serves on four other guild committees. Her recent scripted assignments include writing Stan Lee’s S.T.E.A.M. Squad for POW! Entertainment and the pilot for a one-hour dramedy series about two young, widowed moms raising their families together in a post-Covid world. In her spare time, she did the story and artwork for a graphic novel titled, A MILLENNIAL’S GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE.
Catherine is happily married with three sons.
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