Kate Trefry

Writer

Place of birth: Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Biography

Kate Trefry is a screenwriter, director, and graduate of NYU. Her feature scripts PURE O and REVOLVER both made their respective year’s annual Black List for Hollywood’s best-unproduced screenplays, the latter having Chernin producing with Andrew Stanton (WALL-E) attached to direct. She currently writes on the Netflix series STRANGER THINGS, and loves animals and babies, despite the content of this short. HOW TO BE ALONE is her directorial debut.

Filmography (7)

• Stranger Things (2016, ★ 8.6)
• Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (2025, ★ 7.4)
• Fear Street: 1666 (2021, ★ 7.1)
• Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014, ★ 5.5)
• Souls of Totality (2018, ★ 5.8)
• How to Be Alone (2019, ★ 6.3)
• Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (2026, ★ 6.5)