---
name: "Kate Gersten"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kate-gersten"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T18:57:30.768082+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kate Gersten

Writer. Born in Tribeca, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2100477/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1087679

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Good Place*](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md) (84)

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## Biography

Kate Gersten is a writer and producer. She was born and raised in Tribeca, New York, and trained at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program at Juilliard.

She has written for television series including *Mozart in the Jungle* (2014–2016), *The Good Place* (2017–2019), *Schmigadoon!* (2021), *Lost Ollie* (2022) and *Up Here* (2023). Her feature debut, the screenplay for *The Last Showgirl* (2024), was adapted from her own play. She has also worked as a producer on several of these projects.

Gersten is a playwright whose works include *Benefit of the Doubt* and *Be Your Best Friend*. She has received nominations from the Writers Guild of America and a Children's & Family Emmy Award.

*Sources: imdb.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Good Place* (2016), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Last Showgirl* (2024), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Up Here* (2023), series, Supervising Producer, Writer
- *Lost Ollie* (2022), series, Writer
- *Schmigadoon!* (2021), series, Writer, Consulting Producer
- *The Good Place* (2016), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md)
- *Razortooth* (2007), as Holly Shulbert
- *The Favorites*, Screenplay

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