Colby Day is a filmmaker and playwright based in Los Angeles, California. His feature film script In The Blink of an Eye was featured on The Black List 2016 and is currently in post-production with Academy Award winner Andrew Stanton (Wall-E) directing Rashida Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Daveed Diggs for Searchlight Pictures. He was hired off that script to adapt Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Children of Time for Lionsgate, and most recently wrote the script for Spaceman, directed by Johan Renck (Chernobyl), starring Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems), Carey Mulligan (Academy Award Nominee for Promising Young Woman), and Paul Dano. The film is an adaptation of the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar for Free Association & Netflix.

His debut short film as a writer/director — Lead/Follow, starring Della Saba (Physical on Apple TV) and Sam Nelson Harris (X Ambassadors) — premiered at the Oscar-qualifying deadCenter Film Festival, with screenings at Woodstock Film Festival and Austin Film Festival, and marks the first film for his company Not Impossible Productions.

Colby is currently developing projects about ghosts, monsters, chaos theory, and a choose your own adventure film.

The stranger the idea, the more impossible the story, the more likely he is to dive in.

ShowBusiness Weekly says his work is full of “grand insights into relationships and society, but it’s all done with jokes.” He tells stories about people, robots, and monsters dealing with their feelings. Born and raised in California, he attended NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing where he somehow became a playwright. His plays have been developed and produced by Crashbox Theater Company, Pipeline Theatre Company, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, The In-Between People, UglyRhino, Theater for the New City, and The Tank.  He is a twice participating member of Pipeline's PlayLab (2014-2015), and has been a writer in residence for TRE & The In-Between People. His first play FELIX & THE DILIGENCE is available for purchase here.

He wants you to recognize your feelings in his work, especially the dumb bad wrong ones. Because he thinks those are magical and aren't dumb or bad at all.

His films have been featured nationally and around the world at Austin Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, deadCenter Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, SF Indie Shorts, Charlotte Film Festival, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Northside Film Festival, NewFilmmakers New York, Soho International Film Festival, Hollywood Screenplay Festival,  Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg and more. His work has been featured on Directors Notes, Beyond the Short, and Film Shortage.

You may have seem him on television, in the background, out of focus, on either The Daily Show, or Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In NY Colby worked as Pipeline Theatre Company's Artistic Development Manager, where he created their PlayLab, fostering the development of 22 original plays. He is represented by Grandview and UTA.

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