Biography

Kim Bass-is an Emmy-nominated, NAACP Image Award-winning, screenplay and teleplay writer who became a member of the Writers Guild of America West in 1989, after selling sketch comedy material to the HBO news parody show, Not Necessarily The News, and optioning his first screenplay.

Also, in 1989 Mr. Bass was selected as a participant in the prestigious Warner Brothers Studio Sitcom Writers' Workshop. During the past twenty-five years, Mr. Bass has worked as a writer for most if not all the major Hollywood studios and television networks as well as many prominent and independent film and television production companies including: Warner Brothers Studios; Twentieth Century Fox Studios (overall writer-producer deal); Disney Studios; Sony Pictures Studios; Paramount Studios; Dream Works Studios; New Line Cinema; Film Roman Productions; Act III Productions; Savoy Pictures; The Jackson-McHenry Company; Image Entertainment; HBO; ABC; WB; UPN; FOX Television network; Nickelodeon. Mr. Bass has sold over two dozen screenplays. Mr. Bass has been hired to rewrite several screenplays including A Thin Line Between Love & Hate starring Martin Lawrence. Mr. Bass has consulted on or rewritten more than fifty teleplays. Mr. Bass has been nominated for an Emmy Award for "Best Writing" and has received an NAACP Image Award for writer on "Best Comedy Series" for the ground-breaking FOX network sketch comedy series, In Living Color. Mr. Bass is the creator of the Cable Ace Award-winning Nickelodeon series, Kenan & Kel, and he conceived the ABC/WB hit syndicated sitcom, Sister, Sister for which he shares a "Created By" credit. Mr. Bass was a creative consultant, for two seasons, on the WB network's animated series, Men In Black-The Series.

Mr. Bass became a member of the Directors Guild of America in 2019, after directing his fourth film, Day of Days, which starred veteran actor Tom Skerritt. Mr. Bass' latest film, A Snowy Day in Oakland (an urban comedic drama) was released in theaters nationwide on March 17th 2023 and began streaming on STARZ in October. In addition, Mr. Bass' film, Tyson's Run (family drama), which he both wrote and directed, was released by Collide/Universal Pictures theatrically, nationwide on March 11th of 2022 and it will began streaming on Netflix (USA) on March 14th of 2024, becoming the 4th most watched film on the streamer after becoming 8th most watched English language film, globally, on Netflix in October of 2023.
- IMDb mini biography by: BEI

Grandson of Everett Holmes, the first African-American mayor in New York state.

Son of Juanita Bass, who is the creator of "Juanita's Soul Classics", a famous line of food products including barbecue sauce.

Kim Bass was born in Utica, New York.