Sasha-Gay Lewis

Sasha-Gay Lewis is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. Lewis’s acclaimed documentary The Incursion earned awards at the Caribbean Tales Film Festival, Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, and DOC LA. She was a co-producer on HBO’s Reopening Night, which followed the Public Theater’s return to the stage after the COVID-19 shutdown.

As a screenwriter and producer on Glad You Asked (Season 2), Lewis helped the YouTube Originals series earn an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Educational or Informational Series. Her short Surviving Suicide is used as an awareness tool in high schools, and her architectural short The People’s Vision was featured by the AIA’s I Look Up Film Challenge.

She is the founder of Phoenix, a female-led production company offering creative producing services, and she has served on the board of the Documentary Producers Alliance.