Kate McKinnon to Join Stephen Colbert for Annual Montclair Film Benefit Conversation (Exclusive)

Kate McKinnon is set to join Stephen Colbert for his annual Montclair Film benefit conversation, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The event, set to take place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey on Dec. 5, will see the former Late Show host talk with the actress and writer about her comedic career across TV, film and middle-grade books.

After breaking out with her Emmy-winning decade-long stint on Saturday Night Live, McKinnon starred in such films as Paul Feig’s 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, Jay Roach’s 2019 Fox News sexual harassment film Bombshell, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Danny Boyle’s Yesterday, Susanna Fogel’s The Spy Who Dumped Me, Lucia Aniello’s Rough Night and Josh Gordon and Will Speck’s Office Christmas Party.

Her recent credits also include roles in The Roses, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, and The Wrong Girls, with Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat. Her upcoming projects include Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s Thumb, the third season of the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Netflix’s One Attempt Remaining, with John Cena and Jennifer Garner.

McKinnon is also the New York Times best-selling author of middle-grade book series The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, which includes follow-up books Secrets of the Purple Pearl and The Jungle of Carabanana.

“We are so grateful to Kate McKinnon for joining us for this special event,” Montclair Film artistic director and co-head Tom Hall said in a statement. “Kate is one of our great comic performers and we look forward to a fantastic night when she joins Stephen Colbert for an hilarious evening of
conversation.”

Tickets for the event will go on sale on Wednesday for Montclair Film and NJPAC members and on Friday for the general public. All proceeds from the evening will benefit Montclair Film, the New Jersey based non-profit arts organization with which Colbert has long been involved, which runs the Montclair Film Festival, which runs through Oct. 25.

In addition to the festival, Montclair Film owns and operates Montclair’s art house theater The Clairidge and provides year-round film education, storytelling and community programs throughout New Jersey.

Past participants in Colbert’s Montclair conversations include Conan O’Brien, John Oliver, J.J. Abrams, Steve Carell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Meryl Streep and Martin Scorsese.

Colbert’s wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert is the president emeritus of Montclair’s board of trustees, with Colbert on an advisory board with Abrams, Jonathan Alter, Jon Stewart, Richard Curtis, Abigail Disney, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Patrick Wilson, Laura Linney, Julie Taymor and others.