Razan Ghalayini

RAZAN GHALAYINI is a three time Emmy Award nominated writer, director, and producer. She is a Co-Executive Producer and Director at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where in addition to running the field department, she has written and directed over 70 field pieces across nine countries.In 2021, Film Independent invited Razan to develop her half-hour comedy, Known Associates, in the Film Independent Episodic Lab.

Razan created Full Frontal’s "This Is Not A Game:The Game" for the 2018 midterm elections. An appointment based trivia game, the app drove voter registration and turnout, reaching an unprecedented 250,000 users for vote.org in the months leading up to the election.

Razan has created short form content for the SundanceNow Doc Club, Bloomberg and The Intercept. Razan co-wrote The Intercept’s investigation into the Fort Dix Five and directed Entrapped, a short documentary about the case. Entrapped premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival before playing at 15 festivals around the country.

Previously, Razan served as a supervising field producer for The Trials of Spring (PBS) and Homegrown (HBO). She co-produced and field directed We Are The Giant (Passion Pictures), about non-violent resistance in the 2011 revolutions in Syria, Bahrain, and Libya. She also served as associate producer on Koran By Heart (HBO).

She is represented by United Talent Agency and Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.