Kris Lefcoe is a Canadian-American writer-director based in New York City. Her work has screened at TIFF, SXSW, British Film Institute, Art Basel Miami, IFC, and the Sundance Channel. 
 
Lefcoe's half-hour comedy Giving Up, about a New York couple facing their own deadline to either ‘make it’ or give up their dreams, won top prizes at Seriesfest and New York Television Festival. The series was executive produced by David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) and developed with Imagine Television. In 2020, Kris made her network directing debut on the NBC comedy Superstore.
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Pitch-black comedy Public Domain, Kris’ audacious audience-award-winning feature debut about a surveillance-based game show, was hailed as "creepy-funny and well-acted" (Variety), and "an assured debut" (Austin Chronicle). The film premiered at SXSW and was installed at Art Basel Miami.
 
Lefcoe’s intricate stop motion short Tiny Riot Project, featuring a riot squad of corporate mascots in a violent face off with endearing anarchists, premiered at IFF Rotterdam, was installed at Galerie Tomas Schulte Berlin, Havana Biennale, and Art Basel Miami, then sold to the Sundance Channel. Her acclaimed Twilight Zone-esque short Can I Get A Witness? starring Scott Speedman, screened at Toronto International Film Festival, BFI and Anthology Film Archives.
 
Kris' explosive music videos have garnered numerous nominations and awards, including the Peaches smash Boys Wanna Be Her, and two for hip hop duo POW’s, one shot in a federal penitentiary while the group was incarcerated, and the other, winner of Best Video at the Ottawa International Festival of Animation.
 
Kris is co-creator, writer and EP of Making Plans For Nigel, a dark comedy series in network development with Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Mary Rohlich (Atypical). She recently won Best Director at Deluxe Film Festival in Rome for the sex-robot comedy Technical Support starring Aparna Nancherla and Courtney Pauroso. And she’s currently writing her second feature, a midlife crisis comedy that asks - can hedonism and hallucinogens save a family? 
 
As a musician, Kris performs haunting original songs at live venues around NYC. Her first solo release, The Naked Tapes, featuring the stop motion video Booked A Room, is set for Spring 2024. 
 
Kris is also a professor in the MFA Film and Television program at Stony Brook University, SUNY. She lives with her husband and daughter in a long-forgotten borough called Manhattan.