Kristen P. Lovell Actor ✰ Producer ✰ Pocket Filmaker 646-538-5025 ✰ [email protected] Based in: New York City

Core Competencies ● Acting ● Producing ● Community Organizer ● Public Speaking ● Event Planning ● Performance art ● Program Development ● Research specialist ● Filmmaking ● Communication Recent Creative Activities ● The Garden Left Behind (dir. Flavio Alves) - Featured cast member, Associate Producer ​ ● Trans In Media - Director of online documentary series created to address ​ misrepresentation of trans people in media throughout history. Recently featured in Perpetual Revolution, an exhibition at the International Center of Photography ​ ● Sets Unreleased (pilot; dir. Peter Greene) - Actor ​ ● TBA project (dir. Grant Singer; in post production) - Lead Actor ​ ● In Support (feature film) - Actor ​ ● Happy Birthday, Marsha! (dir. Reina Gossett & Sasha Worzel) - Actor ​ ● Theater Diablo (Allied Productions) - Lead Actor (live theater) ● Getty Images eyeem collection - Photographer ● Stringer (freelance photographer app) - Contributing Photographer

Community Involvement WRRQ Collective - Co-Founder 2013-present WRRQ is an intergenerational community of queer and transgender artists and activists in NYC. Our wrrq together include visual art, music, drag and video. We also organize community dinners, clothing swaps, vigils, street actions and movement building. Depending on the project, there are 10 to 50 collective members working together at any given time.

TRANS100 - was honored for my dedication to the trans community in 2015 ​

The Visual Resistance - Co-producer of video segments for NYC-wide artist coalition ​

Organizational Collaborators – MCCNY Charities, Iris House, New Alternatives, International ​ Center for Photography, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Allied Productions, Stonewall Foundation, Latimer Group

Professional Experience

Co-Director, Arts in the Woods 2013-present Annual retreat where WRRQ Collective artists work closely with young people who are actively dealing with, or have overcome, homelessness.

Program Coordinator, Sylvia's Place 2006-2016 Served 10 years as a client service assistant/program coordinator performing direct care service to at-risk homeless LGBTQI young adults. ● Created core programing and enrichment services dedicated to empower the lives of those affected by homelessness and survival sex work and those living with HIV/AIDS. ● Created a transgender affinty group:Trans In Action which focused on the trans rights movement/lgbtq history and media representation ● Coordinator of the charities hiv testing and counseling programs/needles exchange programs ● Collaborated with various media conduits to address the effects of homelessnes and media representation of Trans people

Documentary Appearances ● What Trans Looks Like - Featured in the Huffington Post, 2015 ​ ● The Cost of Living - CNN article about transgender surgery, 2015 ​ ● Secret Project Revolution - Sylvia’s Place - Collaborated with Steven Klein/Madonna ​ visual art project highlighting the plight of lgbt young people in NYC, 2013 ● INVISIBLE YOUTH - TIME lightbox photo series by Samantha Box, 2012 ​ ● BECOMING VISIBLE – Photo documentry series highlighting homeless young people ​ by Josh Leher, 2011 ● Queer Streets – documentary featured on Logo, 2009 ​

Education: Saunder Trades and Technical High School, 1994-1997 ​ ​

Technological Proficiencies: Microsoft Office Suite, PowerPoint, Video editing, ​ ​ Cellphone photographer/videographer, Publisher, Photoshop, Excel