Tessa Blake is an award-winning filmmaker and television director (American Horror Story; A Million Little Things; Station 19). An AFI Directing Workshop for Women alumna, Tessa's films have premiered at Cannes and SXSW, have won awards at Nantucket Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, have been honored by the Academy, been released theatrically, and have played on Showtime, CBS, CW & Oxygen, PBS & DirecTV. In 2021, she was hired to direct the pilot for "Our Ladies of Brooklyn" (CBS Studios/CW) executive produced by Jennie Urman. Tessa and her husband Ian Williams work as a writing team for film and television and have enjoyed script deals with ABC, NBC, FOX and Warner Brothers. She has directed plays for Naked Angels Theater Company and The Atlantic Theater Company, is a proud alumna of the 24 Hour Plays, and a founding advisor for The Moth