JAMIE KIERNAN O’BRIEN

is a filmmaker based in New York City and a current M.F.A. candidate at New York University’s Graduate Film program.

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she began her career as an actor before shifting her focus behind the camera.

Her films have screened at Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, Wicked Queer Boston, and TRANSlations Film Festival in Seattle. She loves highly stylized work that plays with and subverts genre, having worked in horror, screwball comedy, and melodrama. Her debut short film, an adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper (in which she also stars), won several awards in the festival circuit and premiered at TRANSlations Film Festival in Seattle in 2022.

Her most recent short, Egg, debuted at Wicked Queer in Boston, and will move on to festivals yet to be announced.

She received her B.A. in English Literature from New York University. Jamie is an openly trans woman.