Joe Lewis
Credits: CEO, Amplify Pictures
JOE LEWIS is an 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. Lewis also produced the acclaimed series Fleabag, Transparent and Too Old To Die Young. He co-produced Gutenberg! The Musical! starring Grammy Award-winners Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, which recently completed a limited engagement on Broadway, and also co-produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop on Broadway in 2022.
Amplify Pictures’ production slate also includes Legends, the electrifying new docuseries that follows the high-stakes world of competitive collegiate Bollywood Fusion dance. Directed by Smriti Mundhra, the series will debut later this year on Nat Geo/Disney+. Amplify Pictures also has the new podcast series, Pretty Sure I Can Fly, hosted by Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker, and created by Lewis, which they are producing with SmartLess Media and Campside Media.
Prior to Amplify, Lewis was the co-founder of Amazon Studios, running comedy, drama and mixed reality for the studio’s first six years.