About me.

Carly Lassegard is a non-fiction storytelling expert with over 12 years of experience in the media industry. She was one of the founding members of the Original Documentaries team at Netflix (see photo for a throwback). As a senior-level executive, she worked on everything from audience favorites, breaking news, and award-winning documentary features, series, and shorts including Oscar-winning films such as My Octopus Teacher, Icarus, American Factory, The White Helmets, Period. End of Sentence and Oscar-nominated films such as 13th, Strong Island, Extremis, Heroin(e), End Game, Life Overtakes Me and A Love Song for Latasha.

Carly is known as a strategic business thinker, a leader, and a collaborative creative partner with excellent programming and content development instincts. Throughout her career she has acquired a diverse roster of talented industry relationships both locally and globally. She grew up in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area and relocated here permanently in 2020. She is open to local and remote work.