Cynthia Kao

Cynthia has written on TBS’s multi-cam comedy, "Ground Floor", TruTV’s, "Adam Ruins Everything" and was a cast member and writer for CollegeHumor. Her award-winning shorts have garnered millions of views, been featured on sites such as Vulture and Huffington Post and played at festivals including Palm Springs International Shortfest. Her short, “Groundhog Day For A Black Man” won Outstanding Comedy and Critics’ Choice Awards at the NBC Short Film Festival among other awards. She was accepted into TIFF’s 2018 Filmmaker Lab as a writer/director where she won a filmmaking fellowship with Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Film Independent. She is an alum of the 2018-2020 Walt Disney TV Directing Program.

Format: Scripted Episodic, Scripted Feature, Unscripted Episodic, Unscripted Features, Scripted Shorts

Genre: Asian, Comedy, Documentary, People of Color, Politics, Social Justice, Women

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

AWFJ EDA AWARD SPECIAL MENTION - TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL - 2024

OUTSTANDING COMEDY – NBC SHORTS FEST 2017

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD – NBC SHORTS FEST 2017

BEST MICRO SHORT – PORTLAND COMEDY FILM FEST 2017

BEST DIRECTOR – PORTLAND COMEDY FILM FEST 2017