Carolyn Bridget Kennedy

Carolyn Bridget Kennedy is an award-winning actor (SAG-AFTRA, ACTRA) and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Carolyn is an active member of the Television Academy (Los Angeles), Women in Film (Los Angeles), Raindance Los Angeles, Film Independent (Los Angeles), SAG-AFTRA, ACTRA, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Alberta Media Production Industries Association, Women in Film & Television Alberta, Women in Film & Television Vancouver as well as Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. She is an improv maven having completed: Advanced Improv at The Groundlings (with an invitation to Writing Lab in their Performance Track); the Upright Citizens Brigade program; and the Conservatory Grad Revue Program at Second City Hollywood. She also performs stand up at comedy clubs in LA. Carolyn also enjoys writing sketch comedy. She has trained in sketch comedy writing at The Groundlings, as well as private coaching with a former showrunner for MadTV, resulting in her creating a spec Saturday Night Live sketch packet and a late-night television comedy packet. Through Second City Hollywood, she co-wrote and performed in a one-hour sketch comedy Grad Revue Show, "Saturday Night Quarantine Fever". It ran for three live show dates. Carolyn studies acting in the Advanced Class at the Beverly Hills Playhouse; at Margie Haber Studios (Master Intensive and Advanced Class); and with Lesly Kahn. She has been cast in numerous short films for American Film Institute, UCLA and USC, as well as other projects. In 2020, with "isolation" and "online" being the reality, Carolyn created and co-wrote a pilot script for a half-hour comedy series, "InFirm". It was a Quarterfinalist at the prestigious CineStory Foundation 2021 TV Retreat & Fellowship Competition. It was also a Semi-Finalist in the 2020 FILMMATIC Comedy Screenplay Awards and a Quarterfinalist in the Stage 32 Diversity Springboard Screenwriting Contest. Also in 2020, Carolyn directed her first short film "Just Desserts" (wh