Charlotte Kennett is a queer, neurodivergent writer and director with more ideas than her Google Drive can keep up with. ​

Charlotte has a penchant for curious, character driven dark comedies and genre films. With a deep love for world building and nostalgic franchises, Charlotte's creative is intrinsically high concept, boundary pushing, and original. Her visual style is commanding and cinematically ambitious -- an obvious film nerd -- Kennett is as much of a technical director as she is creative. Her voice is queer, bold, emotional, intentional, and on the pulse of today. 

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Charlotte got her start in Chicago's comedy scene, cutting her teeth by shooting and producing sketches for iOCN (iO Comedy Network), assistant directing revues (Soap Box Derby King, Annoyance Theater), and helming 2 seasons and 22 episodes of Chapstick, a viral LGBTQ+ comedy web series that she co-created and went on to be watched by over half a million people and receive buzzy press from publications like VICE and WGN Radio. In addition to smaller creative projects, she would work overnights and weekends on countless studio productions (The Patriot, Rampage, Shrink, The Exorcist) where she built up production stamina and experience -- and got bit by the filmmaking bug.

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After graduating with a degree in Comedy Writing and Performance from Columbia College Chicago, she moved to LA and began working as an Office PA (Counterpart, Justin Marks) and later a Showrunner’s Assistant and Director's Assistant. Oscillating between assistant work and freelancing as writer, director, producer -- the breadth of Charlotte’s work is constantly evolving to showcase her unique style in each new endeavor and format. Charlotte is the type of creator who doesn't wait for opportunities... she makes her own.

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Since being in LA, Charlotte has secured all of her own jobs and projects, from creating award-winning short films and pilots to ideating and directing music videos for labels like Sony and Columbia Records. Most recently Charlotte was hired as a showrunner for a queer space series in partnership with Twitch x NASA. Her debut short, Psycho Baby, screened at Canadian and Oscar Award Qualifying festivals and now lives on Youtube where it has amassed over 680k views.

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Charlotte serves as writer's assistant/ director's assistant to Chloe Domont (Fair Play) on her follow up feature A Place In Hell starring Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar Jones. 

Currently, Charlotte is a Season 3 Tribe Writing Fellow through Superspecial created by Amy Aniobi (Insecure, 2 Dope Queens, Silicon Valley). With a background in performance and comedy, Charlotte seeks to bring joy and levity to the screen and her sets. 

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On week nights and weekends, Charlotte is busy restoring a 1990 Isuzu Trooper, exploring nearby National Parks, and developing her own TV show ideas and feature films.​​​