Kryzz Gautier is a Queer, Afro-Latina, formerly undocumented writer/director from the Dominican Republic. As the only child of a disabled mother, Kryzz spent most of her formative years having to entertain herself, which sparked her knack for creating complex worlds filled with three-dimensional characters. She channels this colorful background into her novel sci-fi narratives and character-driven dramas.

Since transitioning from undocumented to citizen, Kryzz has written for an HBO series, served as a writer and creative consultant on 2K Games’ BIOSHOCK 4, and worked on a variety of other projects across film and television. She has developed with or sold projects to studios like Sony, Universal, Stage 13, and Film4, among others. A number of her projects have been distributed by HBO Max, Hulu, and DUST.

Her feature script WHEELS COME OFF is the first in The Black List's 20-year history to appear on three separate lists: The Annual Black List 2021, The Black List: The GLAAD List 2024, and The Black List: The Disability List 2024. She’s participated in programs like Netflix’s “Directors On The Rise,” NBC’s “Female Forward,” Starz’s #TakeTheLead, Ryan Murphy’s “Half Initiative,” Joey Soloway’s “Disruptors,” The Sundance Institute, The DGA, Dominican Film Commission’s Development Lab, Stowe Story Labs’ Narrative Lab, and was a semi-finalist in The Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship In Screenwriting.

Her award-winning films have screened at multiple Academy Award, BAFTA, and Canadian Screen Award qualifying festivals around the world. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Directing Narrative Fiction from Emerson