New Yorker and former child actor. Currently studying Film/TV Production and working on a career as a writer/producer/Showrunner, because honestly, being in front of the camera blows. I was also on the spelling bee circuit as a kid (which are really just kiddie pageants for small nerds whose families find spray tans problematic) and have gotten tons of material out of that over the years. I'm a fan of improv and stand-up, a hip-hop and indie rock junkie, and an avid reader of mostly humorous and/or historical nonfiction.
Also the author of Ten Thousand Hannahs, which I'm really just mentioning here so that I can give it a trope page (for my own personal reference).
My name isn't actually Kate Carey, by the way - it's the name of a character in a screenplay I've been working on for a bit. I prefer it to my own name, however.
I can be found in the following places on the internet:
The following tropes apply or have applied to me:
- Apologizes a Lot
- Badly Battered Babysitter
- Big Eater
- Blue Eyes
- Bookworm
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer
- Brilliant, but Lazy
- City Mouse
- Deadpan Snarker
- Ditzy Genius
- Fag Hag
- The Fashionista
- Fiery Redhead
- Friend to All Children
- Geeky Turn-On (As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing hotter than a cute guy who knows his history.)
- Genki Girl
- Hands-Off Parenting (I turned out okay.)
- Hard Work Hardly Works
- Hollywood Pudgy (Part of the reason I quit acting. I developed an eating disorder at 14 trying to maintain an unhealthy weight for my height, and after I returned to a healthy weight, I could only get auditions for "fat" or "frumpy nerd" parts. I wasn't heavy at all! It really messes with your psyche, particularly at a young age.)
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
- Jewish and Nerdy (Occasionally overlaps with Matzo Fever, depending on who you ask.)
- Jews Love to Argue
- Large Ham
- Lonely Rich Kid
- Mean Character, Nice Actor (I once played Marcy in a production of Dog Sees God, a dramedy based on what the Peanuts kids would have been like in high school. After one performance, I had an audience member tell me that he knew I'd given a good performance because he wanted to smack me in the mouth.)
- Meganekko (I wear contacts on occasion, but prefer my hipster glasses.)
- Moment Killer (My Deadpan Snarker tendencies often get in the way of what would otherwise be really nice, poignant moments.)
- Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us! (Not fic, but I have had people tell me that they ship me and a couple different people I'm friendly with on Tumblr. Bizarre. And creepy.)
- Older Than They Look (I can get carded buying ginger ale.)
- Piss-Take Rap
- Proud to Be a Geek
- Ridiculous Procrastinator
- Saw Wet Hot American Summer Twenty Seven Times
- She Cleans Up Nicely
- Shorter Means Smarter
- Shutting Up Now
- Sophisticated as Hell
- Sunglasses at Night
- The Movie Buff
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech (I have given two in my life. They were both totally worth it.)
- The Snark Knight
- Trademark Favorite Food (Mashed potatoes with sauteed mushrooms.)
- Why Did It Have To Be Walk-In Freezers
- Verbal Tic (I have a habit of peppering my speech with hip-hop slang like "dope" and "fly.")
These are a few of my favorite things:
- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- Arrested Development
- Baby Sitters Club
- Catch Me If You Can
- Christopher Guest
- David Sedaris
- Dexter
- Feminism
- Freaks And Geeks
- The Hold Steady
- Judd Apatow
- Kanye West
- Lady Gaga
- Law And Order Special Victims Unit
- Mad Men
- The Mountain Goats
- Mystery Team
- Parks And Recreation
- Party Down
- Quentin Tarantino
- Saturday Night Live
- So Weird
- The State
- Stella
- Stephen Sondheim
- There Will Be Blood
- Wet Hot American Summer
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