About
Showrunner | Director | Writer
Kristen McGregor is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and showrunner specializing in kids and family content. Most recently, she produced and directed the Potty Training Special for Ms. Rachel and directed for Sesame Street. Previously, she was a staff writer on Disney Jr.'s RoboGobo and the story producer and head writer for Nick Jr.'s Paw Patrol “Eye-Spy a Rescue” Podcast. She is currently freelance writing and directing for several series and is in active development on two original children’s media properties.
Kristen has served as the showrunner of Blippi’s Treehouse (Moonbug Entertainment/Amazon Kids+) and the Emmy Award-winning playground-building series Giver (TVO/Ion).
A true multi-hyphenate, she has produced, written, and directed Sunny Side Up, the live daily preschool show (Sprout/NBCUniversal); Noggin Knows, Noggin’s educational anchor series (Noggin/Viacom); and My Stay-at-Home Diary, a pandemic docuseries for kids (TVO/PBS). Kristen also runs her own YouTube channel, K10’s Crafternoon.
As a writer, she has contributed to Netflix’s Ada Twist, Scientist, Mattel's Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, Apple TV+'s Sago Mini Friends, Cartoon Network’s Lucas the Spider, Nickelodeon’s Abby Hatcher, and PBS’s Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. She has created segments for Sesame Street, developed properties with authors including Mo Willems and Eunice & Sabrina Moyle, and directed for Sinking Ship Entertainment, Noggin, Pinkfong, and The Jim Henson Company. Kristen also served as a creative development executive at Apple TV+, where she helped launch the service in 2019.
Kristen earned her master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, focusing on how children’s cognitive development is influenced by screen-based technology.
Coming from a family of farmers, Kristen is no stranger to hard work and is committed to creating children’s media that leaves a lasting impact beyond the screen.
