Kathreen Khavari is a writer and actor born and raised in Oakland, California whose short film, “Brain of Terror” — where she played 11 different characters having an identity crisis — went viral. This caught the attention of Issa Rae, who then cast Kathreen as her bitter and lazy co-worker in her hit HBO show, INSECURE. It also piqued Christopher Guest’s interest, who subsequently cast her in his film MASCOTS — opposite Jane Lynch and Ed Begley Jr. — and his improvisation-based commercial for PetSmart.
In 2020, the pilot that Kathreen co-wrote and starred in, EMBRACE, debuted at Sundance and won the Episodic Pilot Competition Jury Award at SXSW “For its originality of voice, its depiction of characters and relationships that are both enigmatic and appealing, as well as telling an absorbing story in a world unseen on television at the moment.” EMBRACE was then developed into a feature film with director Naima Ramos-Chapman (RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS), and producers Khaliah Neal (THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO), Sam Schlaifer & Shannon Gibson (TELL ME LIES), and Natalie Ferry (HER).
Kathreen’s British crime-comedy feature, THE DO-BADDERS, is being produced by UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment.



