Kathleen Lingo is a four-time Emmy Award–winning documentary producer whose work has earned four Oscar nominations, two Peabody Awards, two IDA Awards, and two Cinema Eye Honors. She is currently an independent producer working across a slate of projects, and author of the bestselling Substack Lingo on Docs, covering the evolution of the independent documentary landscape and highlighting the leaders catalyzing a new, exciting era in nonfiction film.
Previously, Lingo served as Editorial Director for Film and Television at The New York Times, where she created and led the production of the paper’s slate of nonfiction feature films and television series grounded in Times journalism. She produced five acclaimed feature films, including the Oscar nominated *Time*, directed by Garrett Bradley, and *Some Kind of Heaven*, directed by Lance Oppenheim, along with nonfiction series such as *The 1619 Project*, reaching wide audiences through outlets including Hulu, HBO, Netflix, and CNN.
Before that, Lingo served as Executive Producer of The New York Times’ Op-Docs, helping launch the series and then leading it as it grew into a defining voice in short-form nonfiction film. During her tenure, Op-Docs published 250 short documentaries, amassing millions of views and premiering films at major festivals including Telluride, Sundance, TIFF, Sheffield, IDFA, and Tribeca. Op-Docs won two IDA Awards under hear leadership for Best Short Form Series: one for the series overall, and another for *A Moment in Mexico*, a series of documentary films by Mexican directors about Mexico.
