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KELLI CRAWFORD
Writer / Actor / Voiceover Actor / Producer

About Me

Bio

Kelli Crawford is a Los Angeles-based writer, actor/voiceover actor, and producer. Born and raised in Michigan she spent several years in New York City before returning to LA. She started writing at a young age and has since amassed television pilots, features, novels, and plays. She’s had articles and essays published in various publications, including Playgirl.

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She has experience recording Audio Description for the visually-impaired and has provided narration and voiceover on independent films. Examples of her narration work can be found in the Extras section.

 

As an actor, she loves “The Thea-tah,” and for a few years Kelli was a staff member and actor at The Street School Artist’s Club. She has numerous credits in theatre and film and studied with Howard Fine Acting Studio, A Noise Within, The Blank Theatre, The Groundlings, and Stella Adler Academy. Kelli is a former member of the online sketch comedy troupe, Sketch Shorty, as an actor/writer/director and editor. Some of her notable sketches as a writer and actor are Women Are Pigs, Adam and Evening, and Sex and the Pity.

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Kelli co-founded Frantic Lounge Films, which produced her short film, Voices Keri, in which she also starred: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS_Du5EG4Hs

 

Music was Kelli’s first love. She was first chair flute in jazz, symphony, and orchestra bands. Kelli went to college on the Sunset Strip. As a former staff writer for Rock City News, a Los Angeles music publication, she wrote music reviews for local bands and arena concerts. She was a co-promoter on the Strip booking bands into clubs like the Whisky A Go Go, The Roxy, The Troubadour, and Gazzarri’s (RIP).

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Kelli loves rock ‘n’ roll, travel, and long, indulgent dinners (especially if there are crab cakes). She’s a work-in-progress ballet dancer, speaks enough Italian to get by (or to get in trouble, grazie mille), and shares her sun-drenched home with a hilarious, weird cat named Trevi.

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Projects

Extras

PODCASTS

Kelli was interviewed twice on Phil Giangrande’s podcast Seated At The Writer’s Table:

 

Episode #14 - on iTunes http://philgiangrandeproductions.com/14-writer-turns-actor-turns-writer-kelli-crawford/

 

Episode #103 - on iTunes Seated At The Writer’s Table, episode #103 The Reality of Writing a TV Pilot – Kelli Crawford & Alex Kitay with her The Dominants co-writer, Alex Kitay (episodes are at the bottom in link).

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A Christmas State of Mind podcast. Episode: Deck the Halls. Topic: A Recipe for Joy (aka Christmas a la Carte) script. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vMzk5NTgxL3Jzcw/episode/N2IxNTNiNDItMGIyOS00ODVhLTg5OGQtNTYxYjBkOTliNjlj?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiY5Mmcm_75AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg&hl=en

 

FILMED MEDIA

“Voices Keri” – short film (writer and lead actor) YouTube link located here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS_Du5EG4Hs

 

NARRATION DEMOS

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ACTOR BIO

Kelli has studied at Howard Fine Acting Studio, The Blank Theatre, The Groundlings, and the Stella Adler Academy. She joined the conservatory program at A Noise Within where she understudied roles in Macbeth and The Cherry Orchard. She was a performer and staff member at The Street School Artist's Club whose home theatre was The Elephant (nka The Broadwater) and The Lillian in Hollywood. (please contact for resume/full list of credits)

Link to IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971409/?ref_=fn_t_1

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RANDOM

Kelli’s feature screenplay “The Ladies Room” received favorable reviews in the first Project Greenlight contest sponsored by HBO and Miramax

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Writing Projects

NOVELS

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THE ROCKER CHICKS OF BABE*CORPS - Women’s fiction, 93,000 words 

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Logline: Fifteen years ago, all-girl rock band Babe*Corps imploded amidst a maelstrom of scandal and bad blood. When drummer Antonia dies, leaving journals detailing their dark secrets, the three remaining members are determined to keep them hidden. But Antonia's 18-year-old daughter issues an ultimatum – turn over the journals or she’ll release incriminating videos of the band. Can they agree to hand over their past or will they kill each other first?

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Fun fact: Kelli wrote two albums' worth of song lyrics to accompany the story

 

Notable comps: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, and What You Do To Me, by Rochelle Weinstein. The Rocker Chicks of Babe*Corps can also be described as Motley Crue’s autobiography THE DIRT meets THE RUNAWAYS (the movie).

 

Awards: The Rocker Chicks of Babe*Corps received the “Outstanding Fiction” award at the Irvine Writers Conference.  

FEATURE SCREENPLAYS

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A RECIPE FOR JOY - a Christmas movie debuting on Lifetime in December 2022 and released in foreign markets including the BBC in December 2021 under the title CHRISTMAS A LA CARTE.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSCsEf6hf4U

 

Listen to Kelli's interview about the script and development process on the podcast "A Christmas State of Mind" here: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vMzk5NTgxL3Jzcw/episode/N2IxNTNiNDItMGIyOS00ODVhLTg5OGQtNTYxYjBkOTliNjlj?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiY5Mmcm_75AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg&hl=en

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Logline: When a food correspondent gets a shot at her own show, she's sent to Angel Heights to help a reluctant chef open his restaurant and film it as a Holiday special. But will they open their hearts too?

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SAFE WORD - Romantic Comedy (work-in-progress)

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Logline: When an ambitious management consultant is secretly rerouted by an office rival to a BDSM retreat instead of a high-stakes corporate getaway, she scrambles to secure a major client to save her job but falls for a charismatic submissive who might help her close the deal and open her heart.

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A VINTAGE CHRISTMAS - a holiday romance (actively pitching)

 

Logline: When a Christmas-loving historian finds her great-grandfather’s 1934 painting of the family’s ancestral hotel she makes it the centerpiece of the holiday fundraising gala and ends up clashing with the fun-in-the-sun travel writer who’s been assigned to publicize the event.

 

IT’S ALL RELATIVE – a Feature Drama (actively pitching)

 

Logline: A formerly rich widow, whose suicide plans are repeatedly interrupted, finds herself in a chaotic family reunion when her domineering mother has a stroke.

 

Notable Comp: Parenthood (focused on the siblings’ relationships to each other), and This Is Where I Leave You

TELEVISION PILOTS

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SELLULAR - A dramedy created and co-written with Anthony Buono based on characters Anthony created.

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Logline:  When an IPO scandal wipes out the fortune and reputation of a prominent 51-year-old entrepreneur, he secretly takes on a failing phone store as his redemption project, where a generational clash with his Gen Z co-workers - and emotionally exhausting customers - forces a man who believes he can fix anything to confront fixing himself.

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Notable Comps: Ted Lasso meets Shrinking

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THE DOMINANTS – a one-hour drama created and co-written with Alex Kitay based on characters Kelli created.

 

Logline:  When a powerful NYC dungeon owner takes on a volatile young protégé, she risks exposing her secret world, destroying her closest friendship, and losing the dungeon that keeps her community safe.

 

Notable Comps: Dying for Sex meets The Hunting Wives

 

 

Awards:

Winner - 2019 “35Pilot” Contest sponsored by She Called Action

Finalist - 2019 Writers’s Assistant Network pilot contest 

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