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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. She was born and raised in Michigan and spent several years in New York City. She started writing at a young age and has since accumulated a number of pilots, features, novels, and plays. She’s had articles and essays published in various newspapers and magazines, including Playgirl.

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 time 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.

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 newspaper, she wrote music reviews for local bands and arena concerts. She was a co-promoter on the Strip booking bands into various clubs like the Whisky A Go Go, The Roxy, The Troubadour, and Gazzarri’s (RIP).

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), 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).

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

 

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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Projects

Novels

THE ROCKER CHICKS OF BABE*CORPS - Women’s fiction, 98,000 words 

Logline: When the drummer of a legendary, all-girl hard rock band dies and leaves behind her diaries chronicling the band's journey, the remaining members skip town with them and reopen old wounds to keep their darkest secrets hidden from the teenager daughter she left behind.

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

 

Notable comps: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. 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 in 2017.  

Feature Screenplays

A RECIPE FOR JOY - a Christmas movie debuting on Lifetime December 9, 2022. The film was 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

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?

A VINTAGE CHRISTMAS - a holiday romance (actively pitching to producers)

 

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 to producers)

 

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

THE DOMINANTS – a one-hour drama for streaming or premium channels. Kelli teamed up with co-writer, Alex Kitay, for the pilot.

 

Logline:  Three women at different stages of life who are connected by a professional Dungeon, fight to live an authentic BDSM lifestyle and are forced to say “F-off” to some asshole every day to do it.

 

Notable Comps: Sex Education meets Masters of Sex (also Queer as Folk and Six Feet Under)

 

Awards:

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

Finalist - 2019 Writers’s Assistant Network pilot contest 

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