Script Revision Lab / Storylines Lab

Jessie Keyt is a writer and consultant for writers, filmmakers, and production companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and India. Clients have included Working Title, Nickelodeon, 9 Story Media, and Alicia Keys. She co-authored Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen, and co-wrote the award-winning feature film Skin, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received worldwide theatrical release. Her screenwriting has received development support and/or recognition from Euroscript/MEDIA II, the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab, the Chesterfield/Writers’ Film Project, the Nicholl Fellowship, and the Austin Film Festival.

Jessie’s plays have been produced at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City and Manhattan Theater Source. Her nonfiction and fiction have been published widely and awarded a Byrdcliffe residency, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and a Columbia Writing Program Fellowship. Jessie holds an M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a B.A. in Literature and Drama from Dartmouth College. She is the Area Head of Screenwriting and an Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU and has taught screenwriting at Columbia University, Sundance, and La Fémis, the French national film school in Paris, as well as mentored for Cine Qua Non Lab, the Amplifier Fellowship (Netflix/Film Independent), and the Nostos Screenwriting Retreat in Italy. Her research interests include climate-change storytelling and alternative scriptwriting, and her creative work often explores alienation, loss, nature, motherhood, and the American myth.