---
name: "Lilly Burns"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lilly-burns"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T13:56:50.985638+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lilly Burns

Producer and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 83 (2), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 82 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Crime 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Burns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110876307, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3951003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252208

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Search Party*](https://film.one/tv/search-party-2016.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lilly Burns is an American television producer. She co-founded the production company Jax Media in 2011 with Tony Hernandez and John Skidmore. She graduated from Columbia University in 2009.

Burns has worked as an executive producer on series including *Search Party* (2016–2022), on which she also directed one episode, *Broad City* (2014–2019), *Russian Doll* (2019), *Living with Yourself* (2019), *Younger* (2015–2021) and *Emily in Paris* (2020–). She received a Peabody Award in 2014 for producing *Inside Amy Schumer* and Emmy nominations for several of her productions. In 2022 she was named president of Imagine Entertainment. She is the daughter of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md)
- *Russian Doll* (2019), Fi1m 83, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/russian-doll.md)
- *Search Party* (2016), Fi1m 83, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/search-party-2016.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md)
- *Free Bert* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Dexter: Original Sin* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Cypher* (2023), Producer
- *My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Wedding Season* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Fakes* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Uncoupled* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *The Pentaverate* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Emily in Paris* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Living with Yourself* (2019), series, Producer
- *Florida Girls* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *Russian Doll* (2019), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/russian-doll.md)
- *Search Party* (2016), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/search-party-2016.md)
- *A Very Murray Christmas* (2015), Producer
- *Unemployable* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Younger* (2015), series, Producer
- *They Came Together* (2014), Associate Producer
- *Broad City* (2014), series, Director
- *Louie* (2010), series, Associate Producer
- *Untitled Black Rodeo Drama*, series, Executive Producer

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