Lady Who Productions
Meagan Adele Lopez
Founder
“Focused on process, our creative life retains a sense of adventure. Focused on product, the same creative life can feel foolish or barren.” - Julia Cameron ✨
Meagan Adele Lopez is an award-winning film director, producer, with over 15 years experience in digital media marketing. Her work bridges cinema, documentary storytelling, and emerging media. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Lopez moved to France to lead the New York Times' digital advertising business, where she helped guide the organization’s expansion into multimedia and virtual-reality storytelling.
She is the founder of Lady Who Productions, where she produces and develops film and television projects that bridge European and American storytelling traditions. She is particularly interested in stories about ambition, reinvention, and the unseen forces that shape creative lives.
Lopez began her career in casting on major productions including Wanted (Universal Pictures) and Academy Award-winning film Juno (Fox Searchlight)), before moving into global media leadership. Her work also includes handling the global creative strategy for the International Olympic Committee for Paris 2024 and Milano Cortina 2026.
She is currently producing the feature film Clatter & Hum (projected release 2027) and developing a prestige drama television series.
Her documentary Through the Eyes of Others, exploring the fate of childhood dreams, received a fellowship from the Saul Zaentz StoryLab, grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Catalan Film Fund, and was selected for the CEDOC Market. It is aimed to be released 2027.
Her television project Ready to Connect was shortlisted for the Bumble Female Film Force.
During the pandemic, her series American Confined in Paris received front-page coverage in The Baltimore Sun. Additional credits include directing the dark comedy short Raging Cult (which won 9 independent film awards at various festivals) and executive producing the single “Electric” by Clara Nova.
Lopez studied screenwriting at University of California, Los Angeles, graduated from the University of Southern California, studied at Sorbonne University, and trained in documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. She has served on juries for festivals including the Femme Filmmakers Festival and L’Europe autour de l’Europe Film Festival.
Alongside her film work, Lopez is host of Whimsy & Grit, a YouTube series centered on the creative process, where she explores how artists transform experience into meaningful work and navigate the path from creation to visibility. The series aims to shine a light on the creative process, which requires both discipline and a sense of adventure. The series reflects her broader philosophy that reinvention is essential to both art and life.
