Wu Kai-yu () a.k.a. Kai Wu is a

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. She is well known for her work on the

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horror series ''

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'', and for

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series ''

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''. She also created the

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series ''

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''.

Life and career

Born in

, Wu was raised in

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. She attended

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, majoring in fictional literature. After college, she moved to

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and was hired as an agency assistant. Her first job in film was as an editorial assistant post-production coordinator on Danny Leiner's ''

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''. She then segued to television; working as an assistant to executive producers on the

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reboot ''

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''. She later went on to become an assistant to

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's ''

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''.

''Hannibal''

In 2013, Wu interviewed for an assistant position on the

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series ''

'', but was instead hired as a staff writer by developer

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. Wu had previously written a pilot that was "a love letter" to Fuller titled ''Memory Bank'', which he read and led to her hire. She went on to contribute to two episodes of the series ("Entrée" and "Naka-Choko").

''The Flash''

Wu serves as a writer on the

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produced CW series ''

''. Her first contribution to the series was co-writing, with co-creator

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, the first season episode "Going Rogue", which introduces the supervillain Captain Cold/Leonard Snart (

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). She and Johns co-wrote the season's 10th installment, "Revenge of the Rogues", which saw the introduction of infamous rogue

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, who teams up with Captain Cold and challenges The Flash to a battle of fire and ice in an attempt to kill him and make him reveal himself to the world that he's real. She co-contributed, with

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, the teleplay for the sixteenth episode, "Rogue Time", with a story by story editor

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. She and Godfree re-teamed to co-pen the 18th installment "All Star Team Up"; which saw a crossover with sister-series ''

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''; and then the 21st installment, "Grodd Lives". In January 2015, Wu began writing, along with executive producer

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and Lauren Certo, the prequel comic book series ''The Flash: Season Zero''. Wu was promoted to executive story editor with the commencement of season two. She first co-wrote the fourth episode, along with new staff writer Joe Peracchio, "The Fury of Firestorm". It introduced the new half of the titular hero, Jax Jackson, and the first ever live action appearance by

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