Tessa Greenberg is a comedy director, editor, and writer from Brooklyn, NY.
She’s been working in the film and television industry since 2008, and has edited for HBO (How To With John Wilson), directed & written original comedy series on IFC, MTV, and Fuse, and directed commercials for Universal Studios Theme Parks, Fresca, Heinz, Flonase, Paw Patrol, Coca-cola, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, and Downy, among others. Recently she directed her first feature film (REGULARS), coming soon!
As a triple threat (director/editor/writer) with a past life as an actor, she is known for enthusiastically breathing life into even the smallest seed of ideas and thinking through concepts from every angle. Tessa’s highly collaborative nature comes from years of low/no budget “DIY” filmmaking that helped push her work to be highly creative in order to truly get the most out of any budget or project.
Tessa honed her comedic filmmaking sensibilities while working for the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and their production department, UCB Comedy & Don’t Think Productions, where she was a resident director and editor.
Before getting to play “professional make-believe” for a living, Tessa grew up in New Jersey playing with her Dad’s video camera and watching Pee Wee's Playhouse, Beetlejuice, and anything weird that could be recorded from TV onto a VHS. Since then she's spent her time finding ways to capture the joy of eccentricity through filmmaking. Her work has screened at SXSW, NYTVF, The Women in Comedy Fest, and Tribeca Film Festival (2016) where she won the Grand Prize for her Snapchat film, "Hot Dogs Forever". She was the winner of truTV's Comedy Breakout development deal in 2018, and also won the VICE Spammy award for "Best Comedy" on her 1 minute mobile phone short, "How I Lost My Virginity".
Tessa is also a co-founder of the Brooklyn indie filmmaking collective, Video Mass (videomass.tv). Their sci-fi and horror-anthology films have screened around the country in local and national film festivals.
When Tessa’s not making films and television, she enjoys writing synth pop music, community organizing for intersectional feminist and social justice causes, and taking pictures of interesting garbage on the street. Prior to her life in film/tv, she studied theatre and performance at Marymount Manhattan College, and also toured in an electro-pop band.
Tessa’s personal filmmaking goal is to use comedy and high concept story telling as means of productive escapism and inspiration for people to be their truest, weirdest, most wonderful selves.