WRITER
IN AMERICA
Kirsten’s first studio feature film as a writer garnered her an Academy Award nomination along with her father, director Jim Sheridan, and her sister, writer Naomi Sheridan.
The semi-autobiographical film, In America traces their Irish immigrant family’s struggle to start a new life in New York City. The beloved drama gripped international audiences with themes of loss, survival, and the love of family, given and chosen.
In America was nominated for 3 Oscars, 7 Critics Choice Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 1 Writers Guild of America Award, 2 National Board of Review Awards, 2 New York Film Critic Awards, 6 Independent Spirit Awards, 3 British Independent Film Awards, a SAG Award, and a Humanitas Prize. Actors Samantha Morton and Djimon Housou were both Oscar nominated. It launched the career of newcomer Sarah Bolger.
The film won the AFI Movie of the Year Award, AFI Fest Audience Award, and a PGA Award. For her writing, Kirsten won a Critics Choice Award, a National Board of Review Award, a New York Film Critics Award, and a Christopher Award.
Kirsten won The Film Institute of Ireland/Guinness Outstanding Young Irish Talent Award and The Miramax Best Irish Screenplay Award.
Over the last 20 years she has written feature film scripts, television episodes, adaptations, revisions and rewrites. She has worked with HBO, Amazon Studios, Fox Searchlight, Warner Brothers, Universal Content Productions, Peacock, FX, Harpo, Working Title, Color Force, Gold Circle, Sky and more.
Kirsten has adapted books from such authors as Roddy Doyle, Sue Monk Kidd and Cecilia Aherne. She has written biopics on such people as Amy Winehouse, Joe Strummer, and Olga Korbut.
She has been a script doctor and script editor for numerous productions.
UPCOMING PROJECTS
SAY NOTHING (FX - coming 2023) - Writer & Co-Exec Producer. TV series adaptation of the NYT best selling book ‘A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland’.
LOCKERBIE (Sky & Peacock - coming 2024) - Writer & Exec Producer. A TV series of the real life disaster and act of terror.
