Jarrett Lee Conaway

Jarrett Lee Conaway is an award-winning writer / director with an MFA in Film Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and former Creative Director on the Entertainment Design Team at Facebook. His latest film "My Brother Jesus", which explores the intersection of faith, art and activism, was released by Netflix's Film Club & Strong Black Lead platforms in partnership with Film Independent. An alum of the NBC Emerging Director Program, Jarrett shadowed on four episodes in Belfast on the second season of the Warner Horizon / SyFy channel Superman prequel series, "Krypton." His feature directing debut, the teen comedy "Mono", from Fox released on Netflix and VOD in 2016 and stars Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies) and Sam Lerner (The Goldbergs). Jarrett directed two seasons of the horror comedy web-series "Bite Me" for Lionsgate and FearNet which earned three 2013 Streamy Award nominations including Best Action or Sci-Fi series. The web-series was viewed over 35 million times. In 2013, Jarrett developed and sold "EXP", a one hour drama pilot, to the CW and WBTV with executive producer Tim Kring (Heroes Reborn). Jarrett's career started in 2007 when he wrote and directed "Anthem", a sci-fi fable about two explorers who discover a time-capsule buried by the refugees of a nuclear war. The short film propelled Jarrett to nation-wide exposure when he was chosen by Steven Spielberg, from a pool of 12,000 filmmakers, to appear on the FOX reality competition On the Lot. During his MFA studies at USC, Jarrett studied under Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis in performance capture directing. Inspired by the course, Jarrett wrote and directed the sci-fi action thesis film "Turbo", starring Justin Chon (Twilight). The short received rave reviews from many sites including: MTV Movie News, Short of the Week, and Ain't it Cool News. Turbo went on to win several awards including The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's College Television Award for Outstanding Children's Program and the Caucus Foundation's Gold Circle Award. As part of Film Independent's Project: Involve Fellowship, Jarrett wrote and directed the Vanity Fair & Banana Republic sponsored short film "Foolishly Seeking True Love" starring Angela Sarafyan (Westworld). The film was Staff Picked on Vimeo and won Ovations TV's Best Comedy Short.