A Black Lady Sketch Show is an American television sketch comedy show created by Robin Thede for HBO. The show consists of comedic sketches performed by a main cast of Black women comedians.
The first season premiered with six episodes on August 2, 2019 and received a 2020 TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sketch/Variety Shows. Though the second season was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it premiered April 23, 2021 and won three Black Reel Awards and is currently nominated for four Primetime Emmy® awards; including an Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming nomination for Daysha, Stephanie and Jessica. They went on to win that Emmy!
DAYSHA BROADWAYLos Angeles native Daysha Broadway began her career with a Master's Degree in Film Editing from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. Since graduation she has spent the past ten years editing documentary, scripted, and unscripted television. In addition to A Black Lady Sketch Show, her credits include numerous television shows such as Insecure, 9-1-1, Twenties and Boomerang. Daysha has also contributed her talents to documentary features such as Light Girls and Surviving R. Kelly, the latter of which earned her a Peabody award.
STEPHANIE FILOStephanie Filo is an award-winning editor and activist with over a decade of experience editing and producing both scripted and unscripted content. Aside from editing film and tv, Stephanie spends much of her spare time producing and editing social action campaigns and documentaries. Her work on the news documentary series Mental State earned her an Emmy® nomination for the episode Aging Out about youth aging out of the American foster care system. She also earned an Emmy® win for her editing on the Mental State episode Separated which covered ICE deportations, making herself and Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to ever win an Emmy® award.
JESSICA HERNÁNDEZ ACEJessica Hernández is a first generation Cuban-American filmmaker whose work ranges from scripted television to documentaries and features. Her films include Bomb It (Tribeca 2007), The Garden (Oscar nom 2008), Karma Calling (Best Feature New Jersey Film Fest 2009), Bhutto (Competition Sundance 2010, Emmy nom, Peabody 2011), Treatment (Tribeca 2011), The Punk Singer (SXSW 2013), and The Boy Band Con (SXSW 2019). In addition to A Black Lady Sketch Show, her 2021 scripted television projects include Adam McKay’s Untitled LAKERS series and Ava DuVernay's COLIN In B&W.
Editing A Black Lady Sketch ShowIn our discussion with the A Black Lady Sketch Show editing team of Daysha Broadway, Stephanie Filo and Jessica Hernández ACE, we talk about:
- The role of the Supervising Editor
- Being the new editor on the team
- The VFX aspect of making "five minute" comedies
- Editing tools you can't live without
- Honing your editing chops in unscripted tv
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