Kenzie Elizabeth(II)
- Director
- Actress
- Producer
Kenzie Elizabeth (she/her) is a filmmaker, director, and actor from Chicago.
After training in improv at The Second City and iO Theater, she co-starred NBC's Chicago Fire, and in the GLAAD nominated episode of Netflix's Easy, while her debut film -- a satirical short about the injustice behind breast health -- was featured on The Huffington Post, Upworthy, and Women You Should Know.
In 2018, her short film, Ponytail, won Audience's Choice, Best Made in Chicago, and Best Female Filmmaker awards at national and international film festivals, and is now distributed by Pixquid.
Her 2020 film, Pathetic Woman - a surreal love story co-written by E.R. Fightmaster, of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Hulu's Shrill, co-written by comedian Katy Fullan of FX's Chowder - was showcased in festivals internationally, nationally, LGBTQ+ festivals, and reviewed as "Arts/Culture to Follow" by Autostraddle.
In 2020, she also directed, edited, and produced, "My Black: A Haitian American Story", a part documentary, part poetry piece, punctuated by footage from Black Lives Matter protests across the nation in 2020, written by poet Alex Dauphin.
She assistant directed the SXSW 2020 Official Selection short film "Basic", featured on Amazon Prime, and worked on ABC's Bless This Mess, and Peacock's Paul T. Goldman.
She's shot, directed, and edited music videos for folk artist Johanna Samuels.
She is based in Los Angeles.
Her 2020 film, Pathetic Woman - a surreal love story co-written by E.R. Fightmaster, of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Hulu's Shrill, co-written by comedian Katy Fullan of FX's Chowder - was showcased in festivals internationally, nationally, LGBTQ+ festivals, and reviewed as "Arts/Culture to Follow" by Autostraddle.
In 2020, she also directed, edited, and produced, "My Black: A Haitian American Story", a part documentary, part poetry piece, punctuated by footage from Black Lives Matter protests across the nation in 2020, written by poet Alex Dauphin.
She assistant directed the SXSW 2020 Official Selection short film "Basic", featured on Amazon Prime, and worked on ABC's Bless This Mess, and Peacock's Paul T. Goldman.
She's shot, directed, and edited music videos for folk artist Johanna Samuels.
She is based in Los Angeles.
