Carlyn Hudson is a left-of-center comedy director and writer from a little bitty town in Texas who now calls Los Angeles home.

Her horror/comedy short WAFFLE premiered in competition at SXSW in 2020 and has since been played on thousands of laptops (and hopefully a few TV screens) across the globe, picking up multiple best director awards in the process. Ringer called WAFFLE one of the best films of the fest, saying "Hudson has a particular sense of humor, both uplifting and disquietingly absurd." Another reviewer compared her to Jordan Peele but she's too embarrassed to cite that one here. Other recent shorts include the dark comedy/sci-fi THE WORKPLACE, distributed by Dust and Gunpowder and Sky, and NICE ASS, another SXSW premiere about, you guessed it, a giant butt.

Her first feature, the micro-budget relationship comedy THE BIG SPOON, starring Zach Knighton (Happy Endings, Magnum PI), and Isabelle McNally (Bates Motel), premiered at Austin Film Festival in 2016 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures. Her next feature as writer/director, a biting comedy about sex ed, is being packaged at a fancy agency with some fancy actors and producers and she hopes to be able to talk more about this one very soon. She's also adapting a queer YA book for Netflix that she's not really supposed to talk about either.

Carlyn has directed dozens of sketches for College Humor as well as multiple projects for Funny or Die's branded division. As a commercial director, Carlyn specializes in stylish dialogue comedy and has worked with brands such as JIF (one of Source Creative’s top campaigns of 2020), Lexus, Hasbro, Kroger, and Annovera, whose campaign starring Whitney Cummings won a Cannes Silver Lion in 2021.

In 2020, Carlyn received the high honor of being in the top 2% of Taylor's Swift's Spotify listeners *in the world.* When she’s not listening to Folklore on repeat, she’s likely bossing around her partner, Alexandria, and attempting to train their growing cadre of rescue pets.