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Quick facts for kids Katja Blichfeld
Born	Long Beach, CA, U.S.
Occupation	Writer director producer casting director

Katja Blichfeld (born ) is an American writer, director, producer and casting director.

She is known for co-creating and directing High Maintenance, a Vimeo web series and HBO television series. She won a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Casting on a Comedy Series for her work on 30 Rock.

Early Life and Education

Blichfeld was born in Long Beach, California in She was raised as an evangelical Christian and attended Christian schools until graduating.

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Her parents are first-generation immigrants from Denmark, who moved to the United States in

Blichfeld was briefly enrolled in Long Beach City College before dropping out and moving to Chicago. In , she moved to New York to pursue a career in casting.

Career

In , Blichfield began her casting career on Comedy Central's Roast of Jeff Foxworthy as an assistant.

The next year, she worked as a casting associate on the mystery-thriller Freedomland. In , she transitioned from film to TV by joining Jennifer McNamara as a casting director for NBC’s 30 Rock.

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She won an Emmy in and was nominated for two more in and for her work on 30 Rock.

Blichfeld is the co-creator and director of the Vimeo and HBO television series High Maintenance. Blichfeld and her co-creator, Ben Sinclair, initially started the show as a passion project. The pair were the sole writers for 18 of the 19 webisodes, which they produced for less than $1, apiece before it was picked up by HBO.

Prior to meeting Sinclair, Blichfeld had never professionally written or directed.

She is currently co-writing a screenplay with her girlfriend, Adele.

Personal life

In , Blichfeld met aspiring actor Ben Sinclair at a barbecue in Los Angeles. They began writing together only days after becoming a couple and moved in together in the span of months.

In , the pair married.

Biography books for 4th graders It was early , President Obama was in the White House, and optimism was in the air. At a barbecue in Los Angeles, where I was living and missing New York, I met a gregarious man in flip-flops and a seventies ski jacket, with a promise of adventure in his eyes. Ben turned out to be an actor in town from the East Coast. We bonded over our love of sketch comedy and marijuana. Within months, we were sharing a Brooklyn apartment, living in a blissful cloud of pot smoke and domesticity.

While on a bike ride across the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, the couple devised the idea for High Maintenance. They launched the show together in

Their divorce was finalised prior to the commencement of season two of High Maintenance. The pair continued to collaborate on three more seasons of High Maintenance, until the announcement of the show's indefinite hiatus.

At 37, Blichfeld came out as a lesbian and began to openly date women.

She met her current partner, Adele, while on a date with another woman in They now live together.

Blichfeld has been open about her struggles with anxiety and depression.

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A few years into High Maintenance's production, Blichfeld sought therapy and began taking antidepressants. Following her coming out, Blichfeld’s struggles with anxiety began to subside. She no longer takes antidepressants, but still regularly goes to therapy.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Media
	Casting Assistant	TV Special
	Freedomland	Casting Associate	Movie
	Conviction	Casting Associate	TV Series
	Kath & Kim	Casting Coordinator	TV Series
	Warehouse 13	Casting Department	TV Episode
-	30 Rock	Casting Director	TV Series
-	High Maintenance	Creator, Writer, Director, Producer	Web Show/TV Series
	Nasty Baby	Casting Director	Movie

Awards and nominations

At the Primetime Emmy Awards, Blichfeld was nominated alongside Jennifer McNamara for Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series for their work on 30 Rock. They were nominated for the same award in before finally winning in the same category in

Blichfeld was awarded Stareable Fest's inaugural Creator Achievement Award in for creating High Maintenance.