Tshay Meade
Filmmer & Artist
(b. Amityville, NY)
Tshay is a filmmaker and artist from Amityville, NY. She is a writer, director, producer, shooter, and editor whose work is an expansive case for optimism, play, and interiority. Working in close collaboration with loved ones, Tshay creates films across documentary, fiction and hybrid forms, namely her debut narrative short film, gales., which screened at BlackStar Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and a number of universities and organizations worldwide. She is the recipient of awards from Forman Arts Initiative, Sachs Arts, and Independence Public Media Foundation, and studied Sociology and Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania and University College London. Tshay is a 2024 Pew Fellow and a 2025 Creative Capital awardee. She is currently developing her debut animated film, TELL ME WHEN YOU GET HOME, through her production company Studio Tshay.
In the News
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Jamaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Appearing at the recent Caribbean Studies Association’s 50th annual conference on Caribbean Vibes and Vibrations, the multifaceted filmmaker Tshay Meade presented, frame by frame…
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NBC 10
A Philadelphia filmmaker is debuting her new animated short film at SXSW. “Tell Me When You Get Home” tells the story of a teenage girl…
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Philly Voice
As a documentarian, Tshay Meade had only worked on live-action movies during her career before she started her latest production. While writing the screenplay for the fantastical story about life…