Alicia Herder is an award-winning writer-director and a Spirit Award and GLAAD Media Award nominated producer whose work blends emotional depth with bold visual storytelling, often centering women, outsiders, and characters navigating mental health, grief, and transformation. 

 

Alicia’s credits include the short films, Good Girl (recipient of the prestigious James Bridges Award for Directing) and Diego on my Mind (Amazon); a music video for NYC artist Paytra; over 20 episodes of JellySmack’s YouTube series Undercover CEO and Supermission that have accrued more than 3 million views; and the plays The Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Bones, Touch of Grey, 4.48 Psychosis, Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Rowing to America. 

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Alicia’s directorial feature project, The Girl who Cried Wolf, has been supported by the PGA Create Fellowship, Women in Film (WIF) Fellowship, and Blackmagic Collective's Greenlight Your Feature Financing Lab.        The script was selected among 12 projects by an international jury  including Elisabeth Moss on Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List.

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Alicia is a current Fellow in the Blackmagic Collective Episodic TV Directing Fellowship.

 

Alicia's producer credits include the feature film, La Leyenda Negra, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received distribution with HBO Films. She also produced the NALIP sponsored short film, The Blue Drum, now streaming on Netflix.

 

Alicia received her M.F.A. in Film Directing from UCLA, and a B.A. in Theater Directing from Ball State University. Originally from Indiana, Alicia now calls Los Angeles her home.