(n.) Storyteller - Moving through the world one moment at a time.
Born in the forested groves of Portland, Oregon and raised in the prickly plains of Houston, Texas, Kathryn “Elise” Drexler is a budding filmmaker and social advocacy enthusiast who has finally found her home in the cinematic arts. As a self-confessed goat lover with three siblings and parents hailing from both academic and athletic backgrounds, her life growing up in the south was one marked by decided ambivalence: the drive to be a productive scholar and academician, as well as a devoted and accomplished athlete.
Years of excelling in sports and school landed her at Columbia University in New York, where, after completing her undergraduate major requirements almost two years early, she took the Film and Language departments by storm. After spending a gap year studying Korean language and Buddhism from a deflated air mattress in South Korea, she moved back to the States where she presently enjoys writing stories that explore the present and historical Black American condition, as well as her own experiences integrating Black female subjectivity into disparate cultural or geographical backdrops.
After she graduates from UCLA's renowned Master of Fine Arts program in film directing, it is her dream to establish a career of plurality as a director, actor, and writer, as she strives to challenge the notion that excellence comes in one gender, color, or background.
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