Job Title
Cohort Year
2026
Type
Fellow

Gabriela Lugo

This Nicaraguan Jewtina began her career on producing teams for indies like the Whiplash short, and features like Palm Springs. Over the years she's worked on multiple feature projects for directors like Ted Melfi and Taika Waititi. After completing various writing programs including Fox , Starz, and Disney Writer's programs, she transitioned to writing on ABC’s A Million Little Things, sold a feature to Mattel, and multiple TV shows, including the 16 Candles reboot to Peacock and an audio drama, which won an Ambie award for Best New Fiction Podcast, in 2022. In 2024 she participated in the NBCU Female Forward workshop, Women in Film's directing fellowship and Ryan Murphy's Half Initiave. That year, she directed her first feature, which aired on Tubi. She writes, directs and produces character-driven Latino dramedies, and while seemingly genre agnostic, she tends to thematically explore identity and new beginnings at various stages of life.