NALEDI JACKSON

ABOUT


Naledi Jackson is a Canadian-South African screenwriter, director, and producer who was raised in Zimbabwe. She is currently a Co-Executive producer and a writer for the upcoming Apple TV sci-fi series Neuromancer, based on the iconic novel by William Gibson. Recently, she was a writer and Supervising Producer on the Apple TV original drama, Shining Girls, starring Elizabeth Moss, as well as writer and Producer on Outer Range, an Amazon Studios/Plan B Entertainment drama, starring Josh Brolin. Prior to that, she wrote and co-produced the beloved Netflix drama Anne With an E  for two seasons. Naledi’s short film, The Drop In, premiered at TIFF and was part of the Canada Top Ten Festival in 2018 — a platform to showcase the best Canadian talent at TIFF. The Drop In went on to receive numerous awards on the festival circuit and was also nominated for a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award. Naledi is currently working on her first feature film to direct. Her other upcoming projects include Remote Control with Amazon Studios, based on the novel by Nnedi Okorafor, as well as The Epoch Index, with MRC. She is a member of  the Writers Guild of America (West), the Writers Guild of Canada, the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy. She is based in Los Angeles.