Shaina Feinberg

Shaina Feinberg (she/they) is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer. She spent her twenties making a stoner, punk sketch show called The Spew. She has been on This American Life, was a resident at Space on Ryder Farms (2018) and Twenty Summers (2021), a Reel Families for Change grantee (2022), a recipient of the Reboot Studios grant (2023), her short film Cleo From 8:20 to 2:35 was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts grant (2024) and her upcoming short doc about Joan Darling is a finalist for the Chimaera Project (2025). Her short doc, A Brief History of Hating My Face (2023), was commissioned by The New York Times. She has written for The New Yorker, Washington Post and, for the past five years, regularly for the New York Times. Her third book, Work (2024), has starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and Book Page. Her films and books have been written about in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bust, Broadly, Logo, THEM, Indiewire and more. She is working on a feature about Joan Darling. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their two children.