Razan Ghalayini

RAZAN GHALAYINI is a three-time Emmy Award-nominated writer, director, and producer. She has directed on Abbott Elementary and is currently the Vice President of Development at Jigsaw Productions.

Previously, Razan was the Co-Executive Producer and Director at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where she led the field department and directed over 70 field pieces across nine countries. In 2021, she was selected by Film Independent to develop her half-hour comedy, Known Associates, in the Film Independent Episodic Lab.

Razan also created Full Frontal’s This Is Not A Game: The Game for the 2018 midterm elections—an appointment-based trivia game designed to drive voter registration and turnout. The app reached an unprecedented 250,000 users for Vote.org in the months leading up to the election.

Her work in short-form content includes projects for SundanceNow Doc Club, Bloomberg, and The Intercept. She co-wrote The Intercept’s investigation into the Fort Dix Five and directed Entrapped, a short documentary on the case that premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was featured at 15 festivals nationwide.

Razan has also worked extensively in documentary production. She served as a supervising field producer on The Trials of Spring (PBS) and Homegrown (HBO). She co-produced and field-directed We Are The Giant (Passion Pictures), which explored nonviolent resistance in the 2011 revolutions in Syria, Bahrain, and Libya.

She is represented by United Talent Agency and Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.