Sidney Butler

Sidney Butler is a writer and filmmaker from Houston, TX. A graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, her work has been awarded by the Sundance Ignite Fellowship and the Disney Writing Fellowship. Over the last few years in Los Angeles, she has worked in multiple television writers' rooms including: Station 19,  A Black Lady Sketch Show and Grown-ish before she was staffed on the Lee Daniels’ drama, Our Kind of People. Her scripted YA podcast, “Academy,” for Wondery and Amazon went #1 on the Apple fiction charts and later went on to win an AMBIE for Best Sciptwriting. Most recently, she was a writer for an upcoming HBO comedy and you can catch her writing sketches at UCB LA where she writes for Maude Night. When she’s not writing, she enjoys binging the trashiest reality television (shout out Big Brother!) and trying to find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe!!