Carly Usdin

Carly Usdin born 1982 is an American director writer and producer Usdin is best known for directing the 2016 film Suicide Kale and cocreating the comic book series Heavy Vinyl with Nina Vakueva In 2019 they received the Jury Prize for Best Director for the short film Misdirection at the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival Carly has spent years making shortform narrative and branded content for clients like Funny or Die CollegeHumor Amy Poehlers Smart Girls World of Wonder CBS Fullscreen Astronauts Wanted Portal A TruTV Viacom and YouTube Most notably they directed the third season of Awkwafinas digital series Tawk and Usdins campaigns for RuPauls Drag Race have won a One Show Pencil and multiple Promax BDA Awards In 2013 they founded a digital production studio with their wife called Scheme Machine Studios In 2019 Carly directed four episodes of the interactive comedy series Wizard School Dropout for Eko Carly was also named to the 2019 cohort of Universals Directors Initiative and the American Film Institutes Directing Workshop for Women class of 2019 Usdin is nonbinary and uses theythem pronouns