Hannah Byrd is a freelance producer and director in New York City, where she works in non-fiction production. She is a 2019 graduate of Michigan State University, where she pursued her degree in film production and worked at WKAR Public Media. Starting as an office intern, she slowly worked her way to the production floor, and then became an associate producer at the PBS affiliate. It was during this time she also fell in love with documentaries. Her short documentary, RISE, went on to win 19 festival awards and selections internationally, including Best In Festival at the Wolf Tree Film Festival. She also produced the documentary What Happened to Henry, which won a Michigan NATAS Student Production Award. After the pandemic she made the jump to the Big Apple. Most recently she has produced for the Multichannel News Wonder Women LA Awards show, the PBS special Afrofantastic, Digital Circus Media’s I Wanna Be Sedated, as well as serving as Post Associate Producer for Hulu’s docu-series, Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence. Hannah currently lives in Manhattan with her fiancé and puppy, Beebo.