Person
Lauren Wimbush
Production · New York City, New York
Biography
Lauren Wimbush is a producer and archival researcher dedicated to telling compelling and thought provoking non-fiction stories featuring underrepresented characters, communities, and experiences. Lauren has contributed to a range of feature documentaries and long form television projects for networks such as OWN, PBS, BET, and ABC News. Lauren received her B.A. degree in English from Amherst College, and an M.S. degree in Media Management from The New School, specializing in producing and media business and leadership. Lauren served as the Associate Producer on the Emmy Award winning feature Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool, produced by Firelight Films and as the Co-Producer on The American Dream & Other Fairytales, a feature documentary produced by Fork Films which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. In 2023, Lauren was a recipient of the prestigious Catapult Film Fund research grant. Most recently Lauren served as the Producer of the duPont-Columbia Award winning Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney for MTV Documentaries and the Archival Producer for The Only Girl in the Orchestra, the 2025 Academy Award wining Best Short documentary for Netflix.
Known for

The 1619 Project
Archival Footage Coordinator

Being Mary Tyler Moore
Archival Footage Coordinator

Oprah's Master Class
Archival Footage Research

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Associate Producer

The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Archival Footage Coordinator

Stamped from the Beginning
Archival Footage Research

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
Co-Producer

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Co-Producer

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
Producer

The Debutantes
Archival Footage Coordinator
Filmography
- 2025Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACPProducer
- 2024The DebutantesArchival Footage Coordinator
- 2023Stamped from the BeginningArchival Footage Research
- 2023The Only Girl in the OrchestraArchival Footage Coordinator
- 2023Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary GaffneyProducer
- 2023Being Mary Tyler MooreArchival Footage Coordinator
- 2023The 1619 ProjectArchival Footage Coordinator
- 2022The American Dream and Other Fairy TalesCo-Producer
- 2019Miles Davis: Birth of the CoolAssociate Producer
- 2016Black Women in MedicineCo-Producer
- 2016Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter MovementCo-Producer
- 2011Oprah's Master ClassArchival Footage Research
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