Jacqueline Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy is an award-winning filmmaker, director, producer, writer, actor, and author with a wealth of entertainment experience. She wrote, directed, and produced the short film '1 Out of 8' which won the Best Director Award at the Georgia Documentary Film Festival, Finalist at the Charlotte Black Film Festival and has received several official selections for other Film Festivals: Uptown Women's Film Festival of New York, Cayenne Short Film Festival, Georgia Short Film Festival, Best Short Competition Film Festival and Lower Eastside Film Festival of NY.

As the founder of The Kennedy Project, she is the creative force behind many film and theatre projects in New York and North Carolina. Kennedy wrote, produced, and directed Reflective Minds; a one-woman show produced in New York City.

Kennedy currently produces her own television segments for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in New York City. She has directed such theatre productions as 24 Little Hours, and The Meeting Place in North Carolina.

The executive producer, creator, and host of Kennedy Productions' Open Mic forum for singers, musical groups and spoken word artists, in Brooklyn, New York is where she began. The forum was a platform created for artists to perform in front of New York City agents. Kennedy has produced children's talent shows and promoted talent shows for Fortune 500 companies. She directed, produced, and co-wrote a commercial for the WNBA's promotions "What you Got" spot which was featured on the WNBA's website.

Showcasing her acting skills, Kennedy has appeared in commercials for Burger King, Sprite, Honda, Lens Crafters, Panasonic, and Best Western. Her film credits include Joyful Noise, Tower Heist, Godzilla Takes NY, Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Girl 6; television credits - Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Law and Order; and theatre productions: Leader of the Pack(Ronnette), Ms. Evers Boys (Ms. Evers) and For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf (Yellow), as well as, children's theatre and international theatre tours.

Under The Kennedy Project umbrella, Kennedy has managed, educated, and mentored teenagers interested in the entertainment industry and taught acting and playwrighting to children.

Kennedy is also Co-owner of Break a Leg Talent Management, LLC where she assists in the cultivating of talent - actors, musicians, singers, poets. She is also an accomplished children's book author, penning the wonderful stories of Shoop-Doo-Bee-Doop and Cake I Bake and Foxy and Henny.

Kennedy received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Communications, and musical theatre training at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City receiving a Musical Theatre Certification.