Kacey Arnold

Kacey Arnold is a nice Jewish girl from Westchester, New York, but don't hold it against her. Those who know her well would say she is not that nice. Or, despite her 99.7% Ashkenazi heritage - all that Jewish. Or, frankly, all that New York (anymore). She moved to LA with her mother when she was 12 and has been going back and forth between the coasts ever since. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she spent many years as an assistant to writers, producers, directors and executives while honing her standup (and her coffee making skills) before she finally became a full time writer/producer herself. Kacey is an Annie Award-nominated writer of children's shows including Robot & Monster, Doc McStuffins, Tumbleaf and Paw Patrol as well as several Barbie features for Mattel. She has developed content for The Jim Henson Company, Brian Henson Productions, Sprout, Nickelodeon, Disney Jr., MGA, Spinmaster, Silvergate, Pinkfong USA, and the Sesame Workshop. She also Produced and Directed a feature documentary about mental illness called A Guy Called Dad which has been used as a teaching tool by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Most recently, she served as the head writer of the LEGO Friends reboot: Girls on a Mission and achieved her greatest accomplishment to date when she became a Lego mini figure. Kacey has also performed nationally as a comedian, hosted a variety of live shows, and was once the face of a national Big Lots campaign. She produced an (almost) weekly podcast, Narcissistic News, with fellow comedian, David Conolly, and continues to do standup as well as develop her own shows for the big and small screen. Repeatedly called blunt, Kacey believes you shouldn't ask if you don't want to know. "Pain is humor. Pain for pain's sake, no thank you." If she can share a lesson with someone that they wouldn't have otherwise gotten, it's all been worthwhile. As the daughter of a therapist mother and a schizophrenic father, she uses the stage (and often the page) as a place to speak the truths about life, the foolish things she has done and heard in life and relationships, the sometimes frustrating differences between men and women, and whatever else is plaguing her at the time (there's always something). She very much enjoys the irony of her writing making her a role model to little girls everywhere. You're welcome, future America!