Angi Tianzhu is a creative director, writer, and filmmaker who's spent her career finding the strange, funny, and human moments in the work. She cut her teeth in the San Francisco improv scene before moving to Los Angeles as a writer/performer for sketch comedy and improv via The Second City, Groundlings, and UCB. She has worked for ad agencies, in-house creative teams, and production companies, leading the voice and vision on projects across entertainment and branding. Previous clients include Netflix, Disney, Google, Meta, Gatorade, Old Spice, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Twitter, and The Grammys. Her work encompasses campaigns, episodic content, documentary, film, TV commercials and social. She was raised by parents who were both fine artists and educators, growing up in their ceramics studio making and selling her own art while learning the business behind it — the same mix of craft and commerce she's brought to every project since.

She tapped into cultural moments like Art Basel, where she worked alongside artists, collaborated with icons, and created an original game that later got turned into a full-scale, real-life version at Comic Con. She’s also directed TV spots nine and a half months pregnant and coached Michael Phelps to dance.

Recurring themes in her work include: struts, casual celebrities, tough guys doing one last job, assassins, animated monsters and mayhem, transformations, femme fatales and bad boys, swimming pools, and dancing, singing, and more dancing.

Formats range depending on where the idea best comes to life, including: sexy brand books, shoppable lookbooks, and interactive celebrity cooking shows, weird animations.

Favorite moments include smelling Blake Shelton's hair, stripping down Lil Jon, handing a 12-year-old lines to tease Kal Penn about his Rotten Tomatoes score (sorry, Kal!), painting herself as the Asian Venus (sorry, mom!), working with Lady Gaga's fashion Haus, finding doppelgängers for celebs, and getting The Hoff to once again run in slow-motion.

Currently freelance and taking on new projects — get in touch if you want to work together.