Kathleen Lingo is an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary producer known for her excellence across shorts, features, and series. Formerly at The New York Times, she recently launched her Substack, Lingo on Docs about being an independent documentary producer.
Kathleen joined The New York Times Op-Docs in 2013, publishing 250 films that received three Oscar nominations, ten Emmy nominations, three Emmy wins, two Peabody Awards, and two IDA Awards for Best Short Form Series.
Starting in 2018 at NYT, Kathleen played a pivotal role in translating journalism into compelling nonfiction storytelling for film/tv. She produced five notable features, including Spermworld (FX, 2024) directed by Lance Oppenheim, and Sorry/Not Sorry (TIFF premiere/Greenwich Entertainment), directed by Caroline Suh, examining the Louis C.K. story. Time (Amazon Studios), directed by Garrett Bradley, premiered at Sundance and was nominated for the 2021 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Oppenheim’s Some Kind of Heaven (Magnolia Pictures) also premiered at Sundance. Father Soldier Son (Netflix), a decade-long chronicle of a military family, won the Emmy for Best Documentary Editing in 2021 and premiered at Tribeca.
She also executive-produced two high-profile series rooted in NYT journalism: The Emmy-nominated The Murdochs: Empire of Influence (CNN), and The 1619 Project (Hulu), which won the Emmy for Best Nonfiction Series in 2024 and was executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Roger Ross Williams.
She recently launched her Substack, Lingo on Docs, about being an independent documentary producer.