Market Road Films is a New York-based, independent production company founded in 2003 by 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and PGA and Emmy Award-winning film director, Tony Gerber. The company’s mission is to bring evocative, visual and character-driven storytelling to unusual and otherwise untold stories. We work in fiction, non-fiction, installation and podcast.
Market Road Films is a minority and female-owned business, committed to inclusivity and diversity in both the stories we tell and the people we work with. Whether flying with bush pilots into war-torn regions of the Congo, embedding with Kurdish police fighting ISIS in northern Iraq, or traveling with former First Lady Michelle Obama to profile inspiring young women in Africa, Market Road Films will go anywhere to find stories that resonate across the globe.
We are a full-service production company. In addition to our character-driven, long-form work, we have created music videos, commercials, museum installations and projections for downtown and Broadway theatre.
LYNN NOTTAGE
Lynn Nottage is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, producer and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. After a sold out run at The Public Theater her play Sweat (Premiered and commissioned, Oregon Shakespeare Festival American Revolutions Cycle/Arena Stage, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) is moving to Broadway. By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por’knockers and POOF!. She is currently developing a new play and multimedia performance installation based on two years of research and interviews conducted in Reading, PA. (w/ Oregon Shakespeare, Arena Stage & Labyrinth Theatre Company). In addition, she is working with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on adapting her play Intimate Apparel into an opera (commissioned by The Met/LCT). Over the years, she has developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That and Harpo.
Nottage is the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, Literature Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters, Columbia University Provost Grant, Doris Duke Artist Award, The Joyce Foundation Commission Project & Grant, Madge Evans-Sidney Kingsley Award, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, Steinberg “Mimi” Distinguished Playwright Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize, Helen Hayes Award, the Lee Reynolds Award, and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honors include the National Black Theatre Fest’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, a Guggenheim Grant, Lucille Lortel Fellowship and Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she has been a faculty member since 2001. She is also an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia School of the Arts.
Nottage is a board member for Theatre Communications Group, BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, Donor Direct Action, Second Stage, The New Black Fest, and the Dramatists Guild. She recently completed a three-year term as an Artist Trustee on the Board of the Sundance Institute.
TONY GERBER
Tony Gerber is an Emmy and PGA award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced over a dozen documentaries for National Geographic, including KINGDOM OF THE WHITE WOLF, a 3-part natural history series filmed on location in the Canadian High Arctic (Disney+). Gerber is a producer of the critically acclaimed, award-winning film JANE about the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. He has collaborated with artists Matthew Barney, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ann Sofi Siden (on various film projects.) Recently Gerber collaborated with artist Blane de St Croix on a film about the artist’s journey to the northern-most town in Alaska to research his solo exhibit, HOW TO MOVE A LANDSCAPE (Mass MoCA, 2021.) Gerber is the producer of the short documentary TAKEOVER (Tribeca 2021) about a group of Puerto Rican activists, the Young Lords, who take over a decrepit hospital in the South Bronx launching a battle for their lives, their community, and healthcare for all. The award-winning short distributed by New York Times OpDocs, has been optioned by Sister and will be adapted into a feature film produced by Gerber and Lynn Nottage with Jose Rivera writing the screenplay.
In 2005, Gerber co-founded the NY-based production company, Market Road Films, with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Nottage and Gerber are currently developing a feature film, EVERLASTING YEA! for Amazon Studios and are Executive Producers of DEEP SOUTH, the Peabody-nominated, 10-part podcast for Stitcher investigating an 1950s lynching and the conspiracy of silence in a small southern town. Gerber is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a board member of UnionDocs, Center for Documentary Art.
TAYLOR HOM

Taylor’s work focuses on topics of social justice and women’s issues. She has filmed across the U.S., Middle East and Africa, covering stories such as the Kurdish fight against ISIS in Northern Iraq, the theft of African American land in the Jim Crow South, the work of dissident journalists in Angola, and the role of women in the Arab Spring.
She has written and produced documentaries and branded content for National Geographic, HBO, NYTimes, PBS, CNN, CBS, Google, and Rolex. She is a 2017 recipient of Impact Partner’s Producing Fellowship. A graduate of New York University’s honors program, she studied journalism, political economy, and Arabic.
NEIL SHEA

JOY SUNDAY

ELISABETH FRANKEL

LAURA COLLELUORI
