Joseph Kay (writer)

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Joseph Kay is a Canadian television writer and producer, [1] most noted as a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for his work on Transplant . He was the winner of the award for Best Writing in a Drama Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021 for the series pilot, [2] and at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for the episode "Free for What". [3]

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kay first moved to Toronto, Ontario to attend law school at Osgoode Hall. [1] After deciding he did not want to be a lawyer he switched to studying television writing at the Canadian Film Centre, [1] and got his first job as a writer on the television series This Is Wonderland . [1]

He has since been a writer and producer on the television series The Line , Living in Your Car , Bomb Girls , This Life and Ransom , and has written episodes of Frontier and Republic of Doyle .

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