Jyllian is an Emmy Award\u2013winning filmmaker working across film, television, and audio. She is known for drawing comedic, heartfelt characters with distinct voices. Most recently she co-directed and produced the feature documentary, Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story, for HBO.<\/p>\n
She was Director, Writer, & Co-Executive Producer for the new HBO MAX rom doc series, Swiping America. Her documentary short, Sunset & The Mockingbird, is currently on the 2025\u20132026 festival circuit and will stream on PBS in the fall.<\/p>\n
Her feature script Pleased To Meet Me is being developed and represented by Wren Arthur and Olive Productions.<\/p>\n
She previously served as Co-Executive Producer, Director, and Writer on multiple episodes of the Emmy Award\u2013winning NBC series Who Do You Think You Are, featuring Allison Janney, Nick Offerman, Billy Porter, and others.<\/p>\n
She directed and executive produced the History\/A&E documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the American Revolution, featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, for which she received a Christopher Award.<\/p>\n
She was Producer for ABC\u2019s The Last Defense, a seven part docuseries executive produced by Viola Davis.<\/p>\n
Her earlier work includes directing and producing short films for The New Yorker Presents, in collaboration with Jigsaw, Amazon, and The New Yorker.<\/p>\n
Her feature documentary The New Public, aired on PBS and is distributed by Kino Lorber, with an accompanying curriculum developed at Columbia University\u2019s Teachers College.<\/p>\n
Her first feature documentary, Pull Out, premiered at multiple international film festivals and is in development as a television series.<\/p>\n
She is the recipient of a national Emmy award for writing and directing a series of public service announcements for PBS.<\/p>\n
She began her career as a staff writer at Nickelodeon and went on to write and produce across Discovery, TLC, MTV, AMC, IFC, and WE tv.<\/p>\n
She has also contributed reporting and production to NPR\u2019s, This American Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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