DIRECTOR / WRITER

A native Los Angelena, Alyssa Cody Garcia began her career unconventionally as an art historian and archaeologist of ancient Rome. An alumna of Columbia University and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, she decided to make own art instead, joining a Meisner studio and directing a few shorts, which led her to the AFI Conservatory as a Directing Fellow. Her predilection for pitch-black humor, the psychoanalytical and all things macabre compels her toward stories that explore the idiosyncrasies of human behavior—in all of their deliciously explicit glory—through the eyes of those we least expect.

Her AFI Thesis and seventh film, MARASCHINO, debuts in 2025.