Katja Blichfeld

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Katja Blichfeld
Born
Long Beach, CA, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • director
  • producer
  • casting director

Katja Blichfeld (born 1979) is an American writer, director, producer and casting director. She is known for co-creating and directing High Maintenance, a Vimeo web series and HBO television series. She won a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Casting on a Comedy Series for her work on 30 Rock.[1]

Personal life[]

Born and raised in Long Beach, California, Blichfeld was raised by Danish parents as an evangelical Christian.[1][2] She has also lived in Chicago and New York City.

In 2010 she married her writing partner and High Maintenance co-creator Ben Sinclair, after meeting at a 2009 party in Los Angeles.[3][4] They came up with the idea for the show while on a bicycle ride across the Williamsburg Bridge, and started the show in 2012.[4][5]

Blichfield and Sinclair divorced amicably in 2016, prior to undertaking Season 2 of High Maintenance.[4]

At 37, she came out as a lesbian.[4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Gould, Emily (January 2018). "Katja Blichfeld Gets What She Wants". New York. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  2. ^ "How Coming Out Made Me Whole: High Maintenance's Katja Blichfeld Tells Her Story". 11 January 2018.
  3. ^ Bromwich, Jonah (September 9, 2016). "Call It a Growing Family: 'High Maintenance' Moves to HBO". The New York Times. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Blichfeld, Katja; Mechling, Lauren (January 11, 2018). "How Coming Out Made Me Whole: High Maintenance's Katja Blichfeld Tells Her Story". Vogue. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Frank, Priscilla (February 23, 2018). "How Katja Blichfeld Went from Anxious 'Super Christian' to Queer Stoner Icon". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 14, 2019.

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