Travon Free

Travon Free is an Academy Award-winning and 2-time Emmy award-winning writer and stand-up comedian. Travon wrote and co-directed his first short film TWO DISTANT STRANGERS, which won him the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. Travon will be co-directing and co-writing a heist feature for Amazon, along with co-directing a HBO documentary about the Bishop Sycamore High School scandal with Adam McKay and Michael Strahan attached to produce. Most recently, Travon directed 2 episodes of the Freeform series SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE. Travon is currently writing the UNTITLED IDRIS ELBA feature at Apple TV+ with Simon Kinberg producing. Before that, Travon was a supervising producer on WILMORE for Peacock, supervised on HARLEM, the Tracy Oliver project for Amazon Studios, executive produced by Amy Poehler, was a writer on the HBO series SHOWTIME about the LA Lakers in the 1980s, was a Producer on BLACK MONDAY for Showtime, and was a Producer on Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s HBO series CAMPING. Travon got his start on staff at THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, followed by THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, and FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE.

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