Joseph Kay (writer)

Last updated April 24, 2025

Joseph Kay is a Canadian television writer and producer,^[1] most noted as a four-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 .

References

1 2 3 4 Randall King, "One transplant leads to another". Winnipeg Free Press , August 26, 2020.
↑ Raman Namachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety , May 21, 2021.
↑ Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards winners: Drama & Comedy Crafts, Scripted Programs & Performance". Broadcast Dialogue, April 7, 2022.

External links

Joseph Kay at IMDb

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[king-1] 1 2 3 4 Randall King, "One transplant leads to another". Winnipeg Free Press , August 26, 2020.

[2] Raman Namachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety , May 21, 2021.

[3] Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards winners: Drama & Comedy Crafts, Scripted Programs & Performance". Broadcast Dialogue, April 7, 2022.

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