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Kathryn Boole wrote her first play at the age of nine. She found the Social Studies Report Presentations by her fourth grade class to be a bit lame. So, when her turn came to present a report on the rivers of Africa, she wrote a “thriller” about a family of American tourists who must flee an African country at war. They enlist the help of a tribal family who have a boat, and all escape down the Nile together, viewing all the geographical and political points of interest on the way. Amazingly, they even survive the plunge over Victoria Falls (reality can be so accommodating when you’re a child). She appointed her classmates to the different roles. Needless to say, this was at least the most entertaining “report” the class had ever experienced.
Kathy was born in New York City. At the age of two, she and her parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. She grew up spending cold winters in Cincinnati and amazing summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Even as a child, though, Kathy felt that she should really be living in New York or Los Angeles. Secretly, Kathy lived in a world of Broadway show recordings and classic movie reruns and was planning to leave home to become an actress/ writer (and maybe the world?s first female major league baseball player). When she was 14, however, the whole Boole Family moved to Malibu! There Kathy finally felt that she was “HOME”.
Kathy’s ambitions evolved into writing/ directing/ acting. After a year at UCLA studying Music, she had the great fortune to work for John Boorman. She assisted this talented Director for four years, as a Script Reader/ Film Editor/ Sound Editor and Writer’s Assistant. She was privy to many fascinating living room discussions and philosophical interchanges featuring the likes of Christopher Isherwood, Tom Wolfe, Tom Stoppard, Joan Didion, John Dunne, Robert Altman, Blake Edwards, Quincy Jones, to name but a few. She traveled with the Boorman family to London and Ireland, living abroad for four years.
Kathy then returned to UCLA to major in Theatre and Filmmaking. She wrote and directed a short, somewhat twisted psychological thriller and a full-length script about a young man from a troubled family coming of age. After a brief stint as a Film and Sound Editor, she studied acting, singing and dance intensively to learn the craft from the other side of the camera. She tap danced with Danny Daniels Dance America, and appeared in several local theatre productions.
Next, Kathy took a part-time evening job as a Sales Associate for a store owned by a gifted, creative, energetic young man named Phil Brock. His chain of retail stores featured European and Scandinavian fine jewelry, home furnishings and giftware. Within a month, she was managing his Santa Monica store and soon she was VP of National Operations. She supervised the building, Grand Openings, marketing, training and operations of new stores. Kathy lived and worked in 17 different cities in the US within 5 years. This job was both demanding work and a blessing in disguise, offering an incredible wealth of life experience.
After retail, Kathy became an Executive Recruiter, another amazing source of hands-on lessons in the intricacies of the human condition. She successfully placed people in positions ranging from Marketing Management to Executive Assistant to Director of IT, with dynamic companies in the LA area.
Getting back to her roots, Kathy has been Literary Rep at Studio Talent Group, again with Phil Brock, since 1994.
STG LITERARY
The STG Literary Department guides writers of select works through the writing or re-writing process, and assists in the marketing of finished scripts. The department encourages submissions, and by necessity is very selective in choosing projects. The literary management process is long and arduous. Success is not guaranteed. Of the hundreds of thousands of screenwriters in this Mecca of the entertainment business, STG can only work with a handful.
As does all the STG Management, STG Literary follows the UCLA Coach John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success. Coach Wooden wrote, “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
STG Literary encourages writers to put on paper (or computer) that which gives them satisfaction. Only the writer knows the perfection of the created work. Whether the public, the producers or the studios are going to pay for it is a whole different area of the operation, and should be separated completely from the creative impulse.
With the vast numbers of works that we read, we have found that the truest ones come from the heart and not from a so-called blockbuster formula. We prefer to work with scripts or books that are original and unique in some way, not a rehash of an overdone idea that made money for someone else. We cringe when we hear a writer describe their work as “Titanic meets American Pie” or some such comparison. Write from your own spirit.
Take your satisfaction in the creation of the work. If it makes money, that’s the “icing on the cake”. Be an artist first. When you’ve completed your work, you can switch gears and become a Marketing Guru for your project.