Lane Cheek
Emmy-winning film and television executive producer Lane Cheek has had a lifelong love of movies, escaping into their stories and characters and imagining how those stories might continue beyond the final credits.
The Los Angeles Film School alum (Film, 2010) grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. Her father served in the military and worked for the National Security Agency (NSA), giving her a childhood far removed from the world of movies and entertainment she loved.
A fateful aptitude test in high school suggested she might make a good producer. The result gave her the encouragement to pursue a career in film and ultimately led her to The Los Angeles Film School, where she earned an associate’s degree in film.
“I knew instead of going to a four-year college I just wanted to learn in an environment that was as much like an actual film set as possible and for me, that worked.”
Lane began landing paying film-set gigs while still in school. After graduating, she worked as an on-set dresser on actress and director Lake Bell’s feature directorial debut, In a World… The experience helped her join IATSE Local 44 and opened the door to working on union film productions.
The Emmy- and Telly Award-winning producer’s professional journey is one of tenacity and drive. Her early roles in the art department, managing props, coordinating, and dressing sets, gave her firsthand experience with the many moving parts of a production as she worked toward her ultimate goal of producing.
Since those early gigs, Lane has worked on productions for the industry’s top networks and studios such as 20th Century Fox, ABC/Disney, AMC+, and Warner Bros., with credits spanning the Taken film franchise and series such as cult-favorites The Vampire Diaries, Modern Family, and guilty pleasure The Bachelor.
She currently serves as Executive Producer and Co-Director of the Emmy-winning golf and travel series This Is Golf with The Destination Channel and as an in-house producer for luxury sleep brand Saatva, where she leads national commercial and branded content production. Her producing credits also include the feature films Daisy and Blood Behind Us.
From her early work in the art department to producing feature films, television, and branded content, Lane has built a career around the love of storytelling that first drew her to The Los Angeles Film School.
