Carla Kettner is a writer and producer. She was born in Calgary, Canada. After graduating USC, she moved to Australia and became a journalist and award-winning short story author.
Kettner quickly transitioned into writing and producing Australian television, and moved to Los Angeles, California. Since then she has written and produced hundreds of hours of television, primarily dramas. She was Executive Producer of The Blacklist, Bones, Vanished,and Mob Doctor. Other credits include Zoo, Night Shift, Early Edition, Judging Amy, Due South, and Strong Medicine.
Kettner has written pilots for Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS. She is currently the showrunner of the Spectrum Originals/Roku Originals crimedy Panhandle, and she has multiple projects in development with Sony, as well as a musical period piece, Mademoiselles, with Paramount. She is passionate about encouraging diverse new voices and, through her company Danger Doll Productions, is working one-on-one with emerging writers.
In the spirit of fostering the next generation of TV talent, Kettner has lectured and sat on panels for USC School of Cinema-Television, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Boston University, and has done multiple screenwriting seminars and podcasts.
