Kay Cannon

Kay Cannon is a screenwriter, producer, director, and actor from the United States. She is best known for her work on the Pitch Perfect film series, which she wrote and produced from 2012 to 2017. Cannon has contributed to the FOX comedy series New Girl (2012–2014) and the juggernaut NBC series 30 Rock (2007–2012).

Cannon met actress Tina Fey, a fellow Second City alumni, while performing and writing in Chicago. When Fey started working on the NBC series 30 Rock, she brought Cannon on board as a writer. Cannon subsequently progressed from being a staff writer on the show to become a producer. She earned the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series three times for her work on 30 Rock and received a Peabody Award for her efforts on the show in 2008. Cannon was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series in 2010.

Cannon has performed improv and sketch comedy in theatres including The Second City in Las Vegas and Chicago, ImprovOlympic (West and Chicago), Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City and Los Angeles. Cannon appeared in the indie film The Little Tin Man (2013) has guest starred on NBC’s 30 Rock, New Girl, and Cristela. She appeared in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and How to Be Single (2016), both of which starred Rebel Wilson and Dakota Johnson. Girlboss (2017) was a Netflix comedy-drama series that Cannon developed, wrote, and produced, starring Britt Robertson. In 2018, Cannon made her debut as a director with with the comedy movie Blockers (2018).