Katherine Covell is co-producer and writer of the award-winning feature documentary Waiting to Inhale, which examines the medical marijuana controversy in the U.S. Her first effort as director and co-producer, the graffiti documentary Paint Louis ’98: Throwdown in the Show-Me State, won a St. Louis / Mid-America Region Emmy Award in 1999. She was associate producer for the television documentary Who Owns the Past? as well as Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson. Most recently she was associate producer/writer for the National Geographic Channel program Megastructures: The Berlin Wall.

Covell also works as an art director and set decorator for dramatic feature films. Recent credits include One Way to Valhalla, Mistress of Spices and The Darwin Awards. Her work as a collage artist can be seen in the upcoming feature films Rent and Bee Season.