WRITER & COMEDIAN

Sasha Stewart is a Writers Guild Award nominated TV writer, producer, and creator who creates work that elicits joy, has a positive impact, and gives her an excuse to eat craft services.

Most recently, she staffed on FX’s new limited series dramedy Dying for Sex, starring Michelle Williams, showrun by Liz Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock.

She wrote and co-produced the Critics’ Choice-nominated six-part Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America. Executive produced and hosted by Will Smith, Amend deploys a groundbreaking narrative format featuring a number of luminaries (Mahershala Ali, Diane Lane, Samuel L. Jackson, Pedro Pascal, Larry Wilmore, Yara Shahidi, and more) to take audiences on a powerful, multimedia journey through American history that encourages viewers to question what a “United States” really means.

With a background in improv and sketch comedy, Sasha has written for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (Comedy Central), The Fix with Jimmy Carr (Netflix), and contributes to McSweeney's and The New Yorker. She was also the Head Writer on the YA political thriller podcast Daughters of D.C (iHeartRadio). Crossing mediums and formats, Sasha’s work is united by her love of compelling characters and getting those characters into all kinds of trouble.

Combining her passions for comedy and social justice, Sasha is a winner of the 2024 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship for her and co-creator Casey Rand’s half-hour comedy pilot, Bill on Earth. She co-wrote a PSA on aging starring the legendary Jane Fonda that aired on CBS Sunday Morning in November 2024. Sasha participated in the 2019 Comedy Think Tank at the Climate Story Lab, the 2020 Comedy Think Tank on Paid Family Leave, the 2021 Stand Up for Climate Comedy Show, and the 2022 Yes And Laughter Lab. Alongside co-creator Keisha Zollar, she is a winner of the 2020 Yes And Laughter Lab for their comedic docuseries about women’s health. They developed the series with Samantha Bee and Soledad O’Brien to star. Sasha has had a kidney transplant and cancer, and both of her experiences have given her unique, harrowing, and hilarious insight into our healthcare system. Two words: “bone pain.”

She has comedy, drama, and animated projects in development, and has too many friends named Kate.