About
Kelsey Taylor is a DGA director and 2024 Film Independent Episodic Directing Fellow.
Hailing from a small town in Eastern Washington, Kelsey attended Loyola Marymount University, earning a degree in Film Production and minors in both Film Studies and Music.
Kelsey's career began as a cinematographer and camera assistant, building a strong foundation for visual storytelling before transitioning into directing. Her breakthrough sci-fi short, ALIEN: SPECIMEN, was created through an initiative with 20th Century and expands upon Ridley Scott’s seminal classic.
Drawn to stories of imbalanced power dynamics, Kelsey's feature film, TO KILL A WOLF, which she wrote, directed and produced, is a modern reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood told through the lens of sexual grooming. The film premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2024 and went on to win an Oscar Qualifying theatrical release. It will be hitting Regal Cinemas in August 2025.
Her next project, THE BAD THINGS, was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition semifinalist in 2022 and continues Kelsey’s interest in stories that live in the grey.
As a DGA commercial director, Kelsey has worked with brands like Volkswagen, Walmart, Verizon. She was tapped by Southwest Airlines to direct their first branded short film, ALONE IN TOMBSTONE, a coming-of-age Western, further proving her chameleon-like ability to work in any genre, from comedy to dark world building.
Kelsey is managed by Bellevue and commercially by Eleanor, the only Black and woman-owned production company in the US, and recently crowned “The 2024 Production Company to Watch” by AdAge.