Credits:
CEO, Amplify Pictures
Executive Producer, 100 FOOT WAVE, FLEABAG

JOE LEWIS is a two-time Emmy, Tony, Peabody, Golden Globe-winning producer and the CEO of Amplify Pictures, the pioneering independent studio that develops, finances, and produces award-winning, commercially driven scripted series, documentary projects and theatrical productions, including HBO’s Emmy-winning 100 Foot Wave and the Academy Award-nominated Come See Me in the Good Light. Lewis also produced the acclaimed series Fleabag, Transparent and Too Old To Die Young. On Broadway, he co-produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop and also co-produced the Tony-nominated Gutenberg! The Musical! starring Grammy Award-winners Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells. Lewis is the only producer to win an Emmy Award for both an Outstanding Scripted Series and an Outstanding Documentary Series.

Founded by Lewis in 2018, with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam, Amplify Pictures is focused on producing globally successful projects through bold ideas, brilliant creators, and unparalleled filmmaking. Lewis won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for producing season three of Amplify Pictures’ hit series 100 Foot Wave. Season three of the big wave docu-series took home its third Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program. The first two seasons of 100 Foot Wave also won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program, and season one won a PGA Award for Outstanding Sports Program.

Amplify Pictures’ production slate also includes Ryan White’s Academy Award-nominated and Sundance Festival Favorite Award-winner Come See Me in the Good Light, an unexpectedly funny and joyful love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley for Apple TV; Jay Duplass’ comedy series Sleep King, produced with Duplass Brothers Productions; the comedy series The Earliest Show from Ben Schwartz who stars alongside Lauren Lapkus; Jeremiah Dunlap and Cory Quintard’s comedy series Mt. Mystic, based on the creators’ YouTube pilot; Matt Wolf’s Soaps, an epic and unprecedented look into the unseen world of soap operas; Bollywood Dance U, the electrifying new docu-series that follows the high-stakes world of competitive collegiate Bollywood Fusion dance, directed by Smriti Mundhra (Indian Matchmaking), and Game Changers, which explores the backstories behind the video games that changed our world, streaming on HBO Max. The first season of Amplify Pictures’ podcast, Pretty Sure I Can Fly, hosted by Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker, and created by Lewis, is out now and produced alongside SmartLess Media and Campside Media. In addition, Lewis and Amplify Pictures co-produced Maia Novi’s buzzy semi-autobiographical play Invasive Species for its London run, following its successful New York and off Broadway run in 2024 and co-produced Julia Randall’s dark comedy Dilaria starring Ella Stiller, Chiara Aurelia and Christopher Briney, which opened off Broadway in June 2025.

Prior to Amplify, Lewis was the co-founder of Amazon Studios, running comedy, drama and mixed reality for the studio’s first six years (2012 – 2017). Series commissioned by Lewis include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Underground Railroad, Jack Ryan, Bosch, Catastrophe, Transparent, Fleabag, Homecoming, Good Omens, Mozart in the Jungle, Hanna, The Tick, Undone, Red Oaks, I Love Dick, Tosh.0, The New Yorker Presents and Long Strange Trip, among others. Series commissioned by Lewis have garnered 96 major award wins out of 201 major award nominations, including two Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series, one Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Comedy Series, one BAFTA TV Award for International Series and two PGA Awards.

Prior to Amazon, Lewis was CEO and co-founder of Bark, a startup AVOD streamer, Director of Production at 20th Century Fox and Manager of Development at Comedy Central.

Lewis received his B.A. in Cinema-Television from the University of Southern California. He grew up in Washington, DC and even went to TV camp in high school. He and his wife reside in Los Angeles.