Draft:Katya Awar

• Comment: IMDB is not a reliable source, and her own Youtube channel is not an independent source. The remaining three sources are all interviews, which are also not considered independent, and thus do not count towards notability. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 05:16, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

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Katya Nadine Awar (born October 15, 1999) is a Lebanese author and award-winning screenwriter. She is best known for writing and creating The Nightmare Diaries, which won Best Horror, Psychological Thriller at Film Fest LA in 2024. She also wrote her debut novel Soulmate which she started publishing on the social storytelling platform Wattpad.

Early Career

Awar's writing was initially inspired by the fandoms of One Direction, Big Time Rush, and eventually a group of social media stars collectively known as Magcon. She started by posting chapters of stories through online forums and Instagram comment sections, gaining her a small following of dedicated readers. Awar continued writing chapters of Soulmate on her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter almost weekly for two years. She finished her online book with over 433,000 reads.

In college, Awar started a YouTube channel where she shared entertaining stories about her life and documented her days through vlogs. She grew her channel to over 10,000 subscribers in a three-month period, her top video gaining over 508,000 views. After the rise of TikTok, Awar shifted to posting content there centered around books and television, her top video gaining over 1,100,000 million views.

Education

In 2018, Awar attended Northeastern University's College of Media and Design where she majored in Media and Screen Studies with minors in English and Musical Theatre. In 2019, Awar interned at the Boston Neighborhood Network where she wrote, edit, and produced her own true crime radio show Killer Crimes. In her senior year, Awar attended her first screenwriting class where a Professor encouraged her to apply to film school, even offering to mentor her through an independent study. In the course of two months, Awar wrote a feature length version of The Nightmare Diaries and re-edited and published Soulmate on Amazon in order to meet application deadlines. Awar graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2022, receiving a Bachelor's Degree with Dean's List honors and an induction into the Lambda Pi Eta honor's society.

In 2022, Awar attended Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts where she majored in Television Writing and Producing. In 2023, Awar interned for talent agent Patricia Quinn, IPG Literary Management, Manage-Ment, Rideback, and Voltage Pictures. In 2024, during classes taught by eminent writers Jill Condon (Friends) and Todd Slavkin (Smallville), Awar filmed a television version of The Nightmare Diaries for her thesis project. She also wrote a television adaptation of her novel Soulmate, as well as a horror adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Awar graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in May 2024.

Career

In September 2024, Awar started the West Coast Page Program at NBCUniversal. She was recently interviewed and featured in publications including Voyage LA, Shoutout LA, and Canvas Rebel. In November 2024, The Nightmare Diaries won Best Horror, Psychological Thriller at Film Fest LA 2024.