Ken Pisani
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Ken Pisani is an Emmy-nominated television producer, film and TV writer, playwright and novelist. His debut novel "AMP'D," published by St. Martin's Press, was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a runner-up for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor, and optioned for television. His follow up novella, the quirky mystery, "4 Corners," was also optioned for television. He's also the writer/creator of the Geekie Award-winning graphic novel, "Colonus," a sci-fi political thriller published by Dark Horse Comics.
Ken's original play about retired rival boxers of the civil rights era, "Glove Story," was a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and selected to the 2014 D.C. Black Theatre Festival. Ken also writes and produces documentaries and true stories, including an unproduced feature about the Rwandan cycling team co-written with Oscar-winner David Seidler for the producers of the Jesse Owens biopic "Race." He's adapted his PBS documentary on SCOTUS John Paul Stevens as a feature screenplay, and his novel based on the true story of a Soviet hockey defector in 1989, a decades-spanning farce, "The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikola Pushkin.
Ken's original play about retired rival boxers of the civil rights era, "Glove Story," was a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and selected to the 2014 D.C. Black Theatre Festival. Ken also writes and produces documentaries and true stories, including an unproduced feature about the Rwandan cycling team co-written with Oscar-winner David Seidler for the producers of the Jesse Owens biopic "Race." He's adapted his PBS documentary on SCOTUS John Paul Stevens as a feature screenplay, and his novel based on the true story of a Soviet hockey defector in 1989, a decades-spanning farce, "The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikola Pushkin.
