Dr. Krystle Klein
Department Chair & Professor of Cinema and Television
Education
Ed.D., Loyola Marymount University
MA, Cinema, DePaul University
BA, Television and Film Production, Western Michigan University
Krystle Klein, Professor of Cinema and Television, joined the department in 2019 and now chairs it. She has been teaching the art of storytelling through film and television since 2005.
A producer, writer, director and editor, Krystle has produced shows for ABC, NBC, Bravo, OWN (The Oprah Winfrey Network), VH1 and more. She has directed and edited documentary films and recently wrote a book about a filmmaking adventure through India. She has worked creatively in entertainment since 1999, when she started out as a radio DJ.
Originally from Detroit, Krystle lived in Chicago and Hawai‘i before settling in Los Angeles. She loves to travel, dabbles in stand-up comedy and yoga, plays the ukulele and trumpet, and once stepped in front of the camera when RuPaul turned her into a drag queen on DragU. Above all, she loves to teach, and is constantly in awe of her students’ talent and creativity.