Lara Everly
ABOUT Lara
Lara Everly is an award-winning DGA director who celebrates female-driven content and dark comedy. Lara’s sharp wit and comedic sensibility first gained attention in her sketch comedy content. She's adept at bringing humor to unexpected topics and using comedy to disrupt the status quo, a skill she weaves into her projects.
Some fresh credits include directing an episode of NBC’s “American Auto”, a pilot starring Geena Davis entitled "I Can By Friday", a Netflix Family series called "Like A Mother", and a Jewish dark comedy short called “Heritage Day” starring Rachel Bloom about how we reckon with the past.
Lara has written and directed for a range of platforms including Disney, Netflix Family, Refinery29, Scary Mommy, Oprah, Funny or Die, Million Stories, Awestruck, Babycenter, Working Nation and more. In the branded sphere, her directing has been commissioned for broadcast commercials including Fisher Price, Walmart, Little Tikes, ACLU, Swehl, Fellow Americans, Bloomlife, Schwarzkopf, Geico, Diono, Swing Left, Super Majority and Netflix. Her recent comedic political spot for Mothers Against Greg Abbott won a Webby Award after going viral with 26 million views.
When she is not wrangling a cast and crew, Lara’s wrangling her children and rescue pets, and hopes to one day have more cats than is socially acceptable.