Gersh Inks ‘Legally Blonde’ Screenwriter Karen McCullah

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EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter and author Karen McCullah has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas, Deadline has learned.

McCullah’s cinematic canon as a screenwriter includes such romantic comedy and coming-of-age crowd pleasing favorites as Legally Blonde10 Things I Hate About YouShe’s the ManThe Ugly Truth, and The House Bunny.

The MGM Reese Witherspoon comedy Legally Blonde alone was adapted into a Broadway musical as well as an Amazon MGM Studios series, Elle, debuting this summer.

10 Things I Hate About You has similarly continued to evolve far beyond the screen, with a Broadway musical adaptation now in late-stage development with Tony Award-winning producer Mike Bosner, Golden Globe-winning writer Lena Dunham, Grammy-nominated songwriter Carly Rae Jespsen, Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, and two-time Tony Award-winning music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator Tom Kitt.

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Upcoming, McCullah has The Last Resort, an

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