Acting
Kyra McConnell
Kyra McConnell is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her creative work deals with themes of obsession, childhood, female friendship, and queerness. In 2023, she co-wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Unturned, which was selected as one of the 2024 Films of the Year at NoBudge. She most recently wrote and starred in WUNDERKIND, a short film set in her Massachusetts hometown.
Acting credits
NRAn out of sorts twenty-something upends her life to befriend the rising star of an Off-Broadway play, wreaking havoc on both of their lives.
Unturned
2024
A young queer couple is brought 70 years into the past with one question. The camera knows the truth, and the rest of us can only imagine. A second-hand find was sweet, but the love captured was even sweeter.
Thrifted
2026
NRWhen disillusioned 23-year-old Sunny visits her hometown in coastal Massachusetts for a summer weekend to babysit her estranged half-sister, a precocious 10-year-old artist, she comes face to face with her past and is tested by the path she has chosen to follow into adulthood.
Wunderkind
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6.5College freshman Eleanor navigates sex, parties and consent in the unfamiliar environment of her small liberal arts school
See You Next Weekend
2021
Behind the camera
NRAn out of sorts twenty-something upends her life to befriend the rising star of an Off-Broadway play, wreaking havoc on both of their lives.
Unturned
2024
NRAn out of sorts twenty-something upends her life to befriend the rising star of an Off-Broadway play, wreaking havoc on both of their lives.
Unturned
2024
NRWhen disillusioned 23-year-old Sunny visits her hometown in coastal Massachusetts for a summer weekend to babysit her estranged half-sister, a precocious 10-year-old artist, she comes face to face with her past and is tested by the path she has chosen to follow into adulthood.
Wunderkind
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