KRYSIA PLONKA
DIRECTOR/showrunner
3X Emmy Winner
Critics' Choice Nominee
Vision Award Winner
Showrunner/Director Krysia Plonka is a three-time Emmy winning producer and her recent directing works garnered a nomination for a Critics’ Choice Award and Jury Prize for Best Comedy.
She is currently attached to direct an action comedy feature with Bill Burr's production company, ATC, in Q4 of 2024. Last year, she directed a musical, Wendy, My Darling with special appearances by Busy Philipps and Jon Cryer. On Hulu, you can find her directing work on the documentary, Planet Sex with Cara Delevigne, which Variety called "fresh and engaging". She also showran and was the director of the third season of the documentary series History of Comedy (featuring all women) for CNN. Her Atlanta-based docu-follow competition show, My Celebrity Dream Wedding, can be found on Vh1.
Fortune Feimster’s trending Netflix stand-up special, SWEET & SALTY, that Krysia executive produced and directed was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award. Just prior, she directed a Maker's Mark branded Roku series entitled The Show Next Door with Randall Park, featuring Tony Hale, Nicole Byer, Trixie Mattel and Mark Duplass.
For nine years prior, she co-owned and oversaw all development for her boutique comedy production company, Thank You, Brain!, where she also showran and directed projects.
There, she executive produced two seasons of the half-hour action comedy, Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, alongside Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers, Dodgeball) where she also served as 2nd Unit Director. The series featured Jon Cryer, Jane Lynch, Kristen Bell, Donald Faison, Joel McHale, Dax Shepard and was named by TV Guide as “one of the best shows on television” (that no one ever saw!).
On HBO MAX, Krysia directed on and executive produced three seasons of the “relentlessly, defiantly funny” Those Who Can’t, featuring Patton Oswalt, Susie Essman, Baron Vaughn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cheri OTeri and Aisha Taylor.
She also executive produced, and directed an indie comedy musical pilot entitled Brooklyn Moving Company, which won the “Jury Prize for Best Comedy” at Series Fest.
Krysia is also responsible for numerous film shorts for major event television, including the People’s Choice Awards, the MTV Movie & TV Awards, Taraji P. Henson’s annual holiday FOX special, featuring talent such as LL Cool J, DJ Khaled, Niecy Nash, Adam Devine and Jillian Bell. She also directed the SFX-intensive show open to Bette Midler’s latest world tour, Divine Intervention.
Krysia is also showrunner/director who launched numerous unscripted hits: Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner (TruTV), sTORIbook Weddings, the docu-follow with Tori Spelling, the Vision Award winning talk show Weekends with DL Hughley (CC), Emmy-winning John Leguizamo’s Broadway show Freak (HBO), and the Emmy-winning Wayne Brady Show (ABC).
In the digital short space, she executive produced the Jason Biggs and Busy Phillips series, I Like You Just the Way I Am for ABC; and directed Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in a series of holiday shorts for GLAMOUR MAGAZINE.
Krysia has also found her voice as a writer. She currently has pilot about a young English/Indian family that moves from London to Morocco to a ramshackle mansion infested with evil spirits. It is currently with producers at IMAGINE.