Biography

Travon Free is an Academy Award and five time Emmy Award winning writer, director, producer and comedian. Travon wrote and co-directed his first short film TWO DISTANT STRANGERS, which won him the Oscar for Best Live Action Short in 2021. Most recently, Travon co-directed the HBO documentary BS HIGH about the Bishop Sycamore High School scandal with Adam McKay and Michael Strahan attached as producers, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and was #2 most watched TV show on Max in the first weeks of its launch last summer 2023.



Last year, Travon produced 38 AT THE GARDEN, a HBO documentary on Jeremy Lin, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Emmy Award for best short documentary. Travon's next project will be co-directing the Paramount Pictures film RAZORBLADE TEARS, based on the New York Times bestselling novel by S.A. Cosby, with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Travon will also be co-directing a heist feature for Amazon and is currently writing the UNTITLED IDRIS ELBA feature at Apple TV+ with Simon Kinberg producing.

Before that, Travon directed 2 episodes of the Freeform series SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE, was a supervising producer on WILMORE for Peacock, supervised on HARLEM, the Tracy Oliver project for Amazon Studios, executive produced by Amy Poehler, was a producer and writer on BLACK MONDAY for Showtime, and was a producer and writer on Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's HBO series CAMPING. Travon got his start on staff at THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, followed by THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, and FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE.
- IMDb mini biography by: Travon Free

As of August, 2020, Travon and his co-writer Mary Pilon are in development with their screenplay of "Barnstormers," about the life of would-be Baseball Hall of Famer John Donaldson, an indomitable Black pitcher, whom they wrote about in a New York Times op-ed piece.

Attended Long Beach State where he played basketball on the Long Beach State 49ers until he was injured.

Graduated from Dominguez High School in Compton, California where he was a star basketball player.