This is Drew.

A Sundance Lab Fellow and Grantee, Drew Denny is passionate about representing women and LGBTQ+ characters on stage and screen through narrative filmmaking, investigative documentary, multi-media projects and commercials. In 2024, she is releasing a queer nature documentary Second Nature, a feature doc following survivors of domestic violence, a comedy pilot about two girls who escape from a doomsday sex cult, a mockumentary about the evils of drag queen nuns, and a musical rom com with writer/producer Jaclyn Moore (DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, QUEER AS FOLK) .

Harper’s Bazaar called Drew Denny’s one woman show turned Academy Award nominated podcast Asking For It “a Fleabag fix in a post-Fleabag world,” and Marta Kaufman’s shingle OK Goodnight is producing a narrative television series based on her documentary Queer Habits—following drag queen nuns who save a rural homophobic community from ruin.

Her first feature The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On won Best Feature, Best First Feature and Best Cinematography in its 50-festival run, earning her a spot in The Advocate’s “40 Under 40” list, where she was named “an auteur to watch.”

Her action comedy film Momster, starring Amanda Plummer and Brianna Hildebrand, premiered in Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019 where it was selected for their debut Pride program and called “Tarantino and Nicolas Refn’s queer feminist love child.”

In over a dozen documentaries, she has secured unprecedented access to subjects as diverse as drag queen nuns in California, abortion clinics in Texas, climate change refugees in the Maldives, NASA scientists in Greenland and sex changing fish in the Pacific Ocean.

Her recent narrative and commercial work features Brianna Hildebrand (DEADPOOL), Amanda Plummer (PULP FICTION), Josh Fadem (TWIN PEAKS, 30 ROCK), John Ennis (MR SHOW), Gabourey Sidibe (EMPIRE), Chloe Moretz (CARRIE), Larry Pine (HOUSE OF CARDS), Catherine Curtin and Michelle Hurst (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), Frank Harts (THE LEFTOVERS), Bridget Moynahan (SEX AND THE CITY), Kelsea Ballerini, Flume, Blink 182, Sheila E, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas, supermodels Christie Brinkley, Ashley Graham, Iman and Lana Ogilvie, and influencers like DeStorm Power, Sam Swank, and more. Her clients include A&E, CNN, CBS, Vice, Spotify, and Interscope Records in addition to partnerships with Gia Coppola Wine, Effen Vodka, and Sony Motion Pictures Entertainment on behalf of her non-profit Allies in Arts.

She earned a BFA in Cinema and Television Production from the University of Southern California and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts. She moonlights in a band called HIPS.

Whether working with a major network, a global brand or an independent passion project, Drew takes pride in directing projects that are entertaining, cathartic and that authentically represent stories and characters who’ve rarely been seen on stage or screen.