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Edward Kay (writer)


Edward Kay is a Toronto-based screenwriter, story editor and novelist with a background in both live-action and animated television comedy, as well as print journalism.

Kay spent four years as a writer and producer on the political satire, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, before becoming supervising producer of The Itch, a comedy series starring Jason Jones formerly of The Daily Show, and Jessica Holmes. Kay then co-created the animated children’s series, Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures (later known as Olliver's Adventures) and wrote the pilot episode, which won a Gemini Award for Best Animated Program. He has written numerous episodes of Atomic Betty, a television series broadcast in more than 100 countries. With Sean Scott, he is the co-creator of Jimmy Two-Shoes, an animated comedy series that in December 2007, was put into production by broadcasters Disney XD and Teletoon. He is the co-creator of Finding Stuff Out, a comedy-inflected science show that airs on TVO and Knowledge Network.

Kay's first novel, a YA sc-fi comedy entitled STAR Academy [1] was released September 15, 2009 by Random House/Doubleday. The sequel, Dark Secrets, was released on September 13, 2011. He subsequently was commissioned by Scholastic Books to write an historical novel about the Battle of the Atlantic, entitled "Sink and Destroy".

His latest novel is a thriller entitled "At Rope's End", which will be released by New York City based publisher Crooked Lane in January, 2017.


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