Chao, Megan

Megan Chao is an award-winning documentary producer and picture editor, and is currently the vice president of development and production for Birman Productions, Inc., based in Los Angeles.  She has a successful track record of managing diverse creative teams and strategic partnerships, while spearheading projects from inception through show delivery.

Birman Productions specializes in premium factual multiplatform content, with a wide-ranging slate of documentaries and series.  Clients include Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix, Nat Geo, CuriosityStream and PBS, among others.

Prior to her career in television, Megan was a scientist and science journalist, who published with The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and worked at CBS/KNX 1070 Newsradio.

Megan has dual bachelor’s degrees in biology and nonfiction creative writing from the University of California at Riverside, and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from USC.  She currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Television Academy representing the documentary programming peer group, and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.