Introduction
Lilly Burns is an American television producer who co-founded Jax Media. In January 2022, she was named president of Imagine Entertainment.
Biography
Burns's father is the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Her uncle, Ric Burns, and sister, Sarah Burns, are also documentary filmmakers. She graduated from Columbia University in 2009.
She co-founded Jax Media with Tony Hernandez and John Skidmore in 2011. She won a Peabody Award in 2014 for producing Inside Amy Schumer.
As executive producer, she was nominated for six Emmy Awards for her work on Hack Into Broad City (2014), A Very Murray Christmas (2015), Russian Doll (2019), and Emily in Paris (2020). She was also nominated for two Gotham Awards for her work on Search Party and Russian Doll.
She married Tony Hernandez in 2015. The couple and their two children live in Boerum Hill.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | A Very Murray Christmas | producer |
| 2017 | The Rundown with Robin Thede | executive producer |
| 2019 | Russian Doll | executive producer |
| 2016–2019 | Broad City | executive producer; director, one episode |
| 2019 | Living with Yourself | producer |
| 2019 | Florida Girls | executive producer |
| 2019 | First Wives Club | executive producer |
| 2019 | Nikki Fre$h | executive producer |
| 2020 | Search Party | executive producer; director, one episode |
| 2021 | My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman | executive producer |
| 2015–2021 | Younger | producer |
| 2019–2021 | Desus & Mero | executive producer |
| 2020–present | Emily in Paris | executive producer |
| 2022 | The Pentaverate | executive producer |
| 2022–present | Uncoupled | executive producer |