KACI M. FANNIN is a native of Houston, TX who, in addition to her work as an actor, is an Independent filmmaker, hailing from the University of Texas @ Austin film school. Kaci made her film acting debut as the female lead in the PBS production of My Own Television (MOTV) for the Fall TV Family Series on PBS and can be seen in Soulmates, directed by Duane Clark, The Associate, starring Whoopi Goldberg, God’s Forgotten House, and most recently God’s Country on Route 9 (by local filmmaker and UArts instructor Steve Saylor), as well as a dozen more independent films.
Kaci spent 7 years in Los Angeles, where she enjoyed success on television commercially, in industrials and as voice-over talent. She relocated to the East Coast in 2003 where she became a true "working actor" performing at The Cherry Lane, the Producer’s Club II, the Billie Holiday, Henry Street and Greenwhich Street theaters as well as regionally at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA and the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY among others. Kaci has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Phylicia Rashad, Rueben Santiago-Hudson, Sherman Hemsley and Roscoe Orman, to name a few.
In Philadelphia, Kaci has had the pleasure of perfoming at The Walnut Street Theatre, garnering rave reviews as Bo in Criminal Hearts, at InterAct Theatre Company as Cathy in Little Lamb and portraying up to 40 different characters in Seth Rozin’s Black Gold, again to rave reviews. Kaci has also performed with Brat Productions and has appeared on the stages of The Wilma and Philadelphia Theatre Company.
As a producer, Kaci formed BanjiGirl Productions while still in film school, producing two small documentaries and an animation project that received a completion grant from the Liberace Foundation. Recently, she has served as Associate Producer on the documentary Drama Mamas! and Consulting Producer for the independent feature, Dreams at the end of a Rope, which is now in distribution (as of January 2011). In the fall of 2010 BanjiGirl embarked upon it’s first theatrical venture with the World premiere of the original play A Matter of 2NDS at Walnut Street Studio 5. BanjiGirl Productions is committed to discovering, developing and producing new and under-represented voices/visions in film and now, on stage.