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 a theatre actress before shifting her focus behind the camera.

She loves highly stylized work that plays with and subverts genre, having made films inspired by horror, screwball comedy, erotic thriller, 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 second short, Egg, debuted at Wicked Queer in Boston, and went on to screen at Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, World Pride DC, and the Maryland Film Festival, among others.

Her most recent short, Gender Studies, will premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, before playing SXSW.

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