Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (born April 4, 1988) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for co-writing and directing 2025's legacy film I Know What You Did Last Summer.^[1][2][3][4]

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Born	(1988-04-04) April 4, 1988 (age 37) Miami, Florida, U.S.
Other names	Jennifer K. Robinson
Occupations	Film director film producer screenwriter
Years active	2007–present

Early life

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was born and raised in Miami, Florida. At 16, she moved to Los Angeles and reached the final round of auditions of Hannah Montana to play Miley Cyrus's best friend.^[2] After acting and working in Fashion PR between New York and Los Angeles, Robinson turned to writing.^[5][6]

Career

In 2016, Robinson created and produced Sweet/Vicious for MTV, a dark comedy series about two female college students who become vigilantes and take justice into their own hands taking revenge on sexual abusers.^[2][6] Although the show received positive reviews, with Variety naming Sweet/Vicious one of their 20 Best New Shows of 2016, it was cancelled after one season.^[7][8] In 2016, Robinson was named as one of Variety‘s 10 TV Writers to Watch, and was invited to speak at the White House under the Obama administration and Vice President Joe Biden's final "It's On Us" summit.^[9][10]

In 2019, Robinson made her feature directorial debut for Netflix with Someone Great, which was generally well received by critics.^[11][5][1] In 2020, Robinson co-wrote Marvel Studios's Thor: Love and Thunder with director Taika Waititi. Also in 2020, Robinson received a screenplay credit on HBO Max's Unpregnant. In 2022 Robinson directed and co-wrote the Netflix film Do Revenge, starring Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke, a high school comedy version of Strangers on a Train, which received generally positive reviews.^[3][12] Robinson co-wrote, directed and executive produced 2025's legacy film I Know What You Did Last Summer, which received mostly negative reviews, and disappointed at the box office.^[4][3][13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2019	Someone Great	Yes	Yes	Executive
2020	Unpregnant	No	Yes	No
2022	Thor: Love and Thunder	No	Yes	No
	Do Revenge	Yes	Yes	Yes
2025	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Yes	Yes	Executive

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
2016	Sweet/Vicious	No	Yes	Yes	Also creator
2020	Love Life	Yes	No	No	Episode: "Magnus Lund Part II"

Consulting producer

• Hawkeye (2021)

See also

• List of female film and television directors
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women