Naomi Iwamoto is a television writer and filmmaker who grew up between Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Most recently, Naomi was a writer/supervising producer on Hulu’s half-hour dramedy Tiny Beautiful Things produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Laura Dern’s Jaywalker Pictures. Based on Cheryl Strayed’s New York Times bestseller of the same name, the series stars Kathryn Hanh as an advice columnist whose own life is falling apart as she fights to keep her family together.

Her previous television writing credits include two seasons of Lena Waithe’s half hour dramedy Twenties, CBS’s Happy Together, NBC’s Connecting and an upcoming Marvel series.

As a director, Naomi’s short documentary, Lost & Found, played at festivals worldwide and went on to be included in the Paramount Studios Women Behind the Lens showcase. She is an alumni of Ryan Murphy’s HALF Director Program and is 23-24′ AFI Directing Workshop for Women+ fellow where she directed her most recent short film, Sixteen. 

She holds an MFA in Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and undergraduate degrees from UCLA in Political Science and Asian American Studies.

Naomi devotes her work to creating full, complicated and honest renderings of humanity on screen, of course dealing with the bits that are too uncomfortably honest with humor.

She is currently developing her first feature film. The script was recently selected for Film Independent’s Screenwriting Lab.