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Meet Katie Locke O’Brien
Katie Locke O’Brien is an award-winning DGA television and film director. She originally hails from New Hampshire and got her start performing at theaters around New England. At her first audition ever, she was cast as Annie in Annie. (She subsequently learned this does not happen at all auditions.) Years later, after a stint in New York theater, she got her LA start as an actress appearing on Justified, Weeds, Community, Chuck, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life and Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here.
Katie wrote and directed festival short films Lone Douche and Discard, and her 2018 short Have It All, which she also wrote and in which she stars, was a finalist for HBO's Insider Comedy Short Challenge at the Women in Comedy Festival, a semi-finalist for the NBCU Short Film Competition, and took home the Jury Prize for Narrative Short Films at the Napa Valley Film Festival, among others. Katie was selected for the 2018 inaugural class of NBC’s Female Forward Initiative for female episodic directors and has directed multiple episodes each of CBS’s Ghosts, NBC’s A.P. Bio, Kenan, Blockbuster, Perfect Harmony, Maggie, Saved By The Bell, and The Santa Clauses for Disney+. In 2024, she won Best Director at Seriesfest for her new independent series, Dick Bunny, which premiered at the 2023 Austin Film Festival.
As a writer, Katie was featured on the prestigious Young & Hungry list and has developed comedy series with IFC, ABC, and WB. She is currently attached to direct the upcoming feature comedy Hot Mess for Vertical and Hulu.
Katie graduated from Harvard University with honors in English and American Literature and Language. She is repped by Gersh and Echo Lake Entertainment, and she serves as personal assistant and fan club president to her 6-year-old son, Julian.
