- Anya Adams is an award-winning Canadian-American director best known for Ginny & Georgia, North of North and Bridgerton. The Alice Initiative named Adams as one of the top emerging female filmmakers on The Alice List 2020. Winner of the NAACP Image Award 2020 for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for GLOW, Adams has since directed two successful series pilots for Netflix Originals' , the wildly successful coming-of-age drama Ginny & Georgia and the 2025 breakout comedy North of North.
Adams began her career in the nonprofit sector travelling the world working with global citizen incubator Up With People for several years before transitioning to filmmaking. Following her acceptance into the DGA Trainee Program, the Canadian native from Vancouver, British Columbia relocated to Los Angeles where she trained on the set of such shows as Boomtown and The Practice. As a DGA member, Adams worked on some of the most successful television shows including Black-ish, The Mindy Project, CSI Miami, Community, Scrubs and The West Wing.
In 2016, Adams directed her first short film, Lemonade Mafia, starring Marsai Martin, Yvette Nicole Brown and Ava Acres. Her career catapulted after directing an episode of Black-ish in 2017 and continues to soar.
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- An alumna of Up With People, an international students program focused around intercultural communication and creating change in communities.
- She is the daughter of renowned visual artist, Jim Adams.
- Her paternal grandfather, Jimmy Adams, was one of the youngest members of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. He went on to form Jimmy and his Continentals orchestra band, performing with such greats as Count Basie, Louie Jordan and Fats Waller.
- Brother, J.J. Adams is a sports reporter for the Vancouver Sun.
- One of the top females in the Alice Initiative List for 2020 under "Women Who Have Not Directed a Feature". The list highlights promising up-and-coming female directors who are ready to helm their first studio film.
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