Kris Lefcoe
Kris Lefcoe is a multi-award-winning director, writer and musician based in New York City. Her half-hour dramedy "Making Plans For Nigel" is currently in network development, with Priyanka Chopra Jonas producing. Kris’ half hour comedy "Giving Up," executive produced by David Wain ("Wet Hot American Summer"), won top prizes at Seriesfest and New York Television Festival, and was developed with Imagine Television. “Booked A Room,” a surreal stop motion fantasy that Kris directed as the official music video for her first solo record, premiered at Tribeca 2024 and was nominated Best Video at the Oscar-qualifying festival Hollyshorts. In 2020 Kris made her network directing debut on the America Ferrara NBC comedy "Superstore."
Kris’ audacious feature film debut "Public Domain," a pitch-black comedy about a surveillance-based game show, premiered at SXSW, won the Audience Award for Best Feature at Beverly Hills Film Festival, and was installed at Art Basel Miami as a single-channel video. Her elaborate stop-motion short "Tiny Riot Project," features a riot squad of corporate mascots (Ronald McDonald, Sugar Bear) in a violent standoff against adorable anarchists. The film premiered at IFF Rotterdam, was installed at Havana Biennale and Galerie Tomas Schulte in Berlin, then sold to the Sundance Channel. Kris’ explosive music videos have garnered numerous nominations and awards, including the Peaches smash "Boys Wanna Be Her."
Kris is an adjunct professor in the MFA Film and Television program at Stonybrook University (SUNY) in association with Killer Films. In 2024 she created and launched the SBU post-MFA Pilot Incubator Lab, which shepherds a selected group of alumni as they enter the industry.
