Karey Dornetto

Karey Dornetto is an American television and film screenwriter, born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, who built an unlikely path into comedy writing after majoring in finance at the University of South Carolina and working for Bank of America. She went on to write for South Park (2002), Arrested Development (2005), Community (2010), and Portlandia (2012), winning a Writers Guild of America Award in 2013 for her work on Portlandia, and co-authored the bestselling companion book Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors (2012). Dornetto wrote her first feature screenplay, Addicted to Fresno (2015), specifically for her then-wife, director Jamie Babbit, to direct; the film premiered at South by Southwest and screened at Outfest and Frameline. The two were married from 2014 until their 2019 divorce. Dornetto's writing has spanned some of the most distinctive comedic voices in American television over the past two decades.