RAZAN GHALAYINI is a three-time Emmy Award-nominated writer, director, and producer. Most recently, she produced the feature documentary Edward Said: Between Two Worlds, about the life and legacy of the renowned Palestinian-American scholar and public intellectual. She has also directed two episodes of ABC's Abbott Elementary, produced an episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, served as a consulting producer on Rob Reiner and Soledad O'Brien's podcast Who Killed JFK?, and is the Vice President of Development at Jigsaw Productions.
Previously, Razan was the Co-Executive Producer and Director at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where she led the field department and directed more than 70 field pieces across nine countries. In 2021, she was selected for Film Independent's Episodic Lab to develop her half-hour comedy, Known Associates.
Razan also created Full Frontal's This Is Not A Game: The Game for the 2018 midterm elections—an appointment-based trivia game designed to drive voter registration and turnout. The app reached more than 250,000 users for Vote.org in the months leading up to the election.
Her documentary work spans film, television, and investigative journalism. She served as supervising field producer on The Trials of Spring (PBS) and Homegrown (HBO), and co-produced and field-directed We Are The Giant (Passion Pictures), exploring nonviolent resistance during the 2011 uprisings in Syria, Bahrain, and Libya. She has also created documentary work for SundanceNow Doc Club, Bloomberg, and The Intercept, where she co-wrote the investigation into the Fort Dix Five and directed Entrapped, a short documentary that premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
She is represented by United Talent Agency and Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.