About

Emily Singer Chapman is a Peabody Award-winning and Primetime Emmy-nominated documentary director and producer.

Chapman produced the forthcoming feature film Sue Bird: In The Clutch, following the trailblazing WNBA legend and gay icon through her decision to retire from her 21-year basketball career. The film premiered at the ‘24 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2022, she produced Leave No Trace (Hulu), on the institutional cover-up of abuse at the Boy Scouts of America, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and garnered a duPont-Columbia award.

Previous work includes Peabody Award-winning and Primetime Emmy-nominated film Oklahoma City (PBS), which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and Who Killed Malcolm X (Netflix), which led to the exoneration of two men wrongly convicted of the killing. Others include Emmy-nominated series Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (PBS) and the Ken Burns Emmy-nominated and duPont-Columbia award-winning series Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (PBS).

Chapman is committed to telling nuanced stories that experiment with style and explore themes of power that reverberate through time. In that spirit, she has collaborated with some of the world’s most prestigious documentary visionaries as a director and creative producer, including Jigsaw Productions, Imagine Entertainment, RadicalMedia, Ark Media, and Left/Right. Her work has screened theatrically and on HBO, PBS, Netflix, Hulu and Showtime.

Chapman splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and her hometown Portland, OR.