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Lilly Burns
American television producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lilly Burns is an American television producer who co-founded Jax Media. In January 2022, she was named president of Imagine Entertainment.[1]
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Early life and education
Burns's father is the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.[2][3] Her uncle, Ric Burns, and sister, Sarah Burns, are also documentary filmmakers.[4][5] She graduated from Columbia University in 2009.[6]
Career
She co-founded Jax Media with Tony Hernandez and John Skidmore in 2011.[7] She won a Peabody Award in 2014 for producing Inside Amy Schumer.[8]
As executive producer, she was nominated for six Emmy Awards for her work on Hack Into Broad City (2014), A Very Murray Christmas (2015), Russian Doll (2019), and Emily in Paris (2020).[9][10] She was also nominated for two Gotham Awards for her work on Search Party and Russian Doll.[11][12]
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Personal life
She married Tony Hernandez in 2015.[13] The couple and their two children live in Boerum Hill.[14]
Filmography
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References
External links
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