Alisha Gaddis

EMMY Winning Actress, Multi GRAMMY Winning Performer & Producer, Best-Selling Author & Filmmaker, Wanderlust Advocate

 
 

​Meet Alisha

ALISHA GADDIS is an Emmy Award-winning actress and producer, multi-Grammy Award winner, writer, humorist, and filmmaker. 

As an executive producer and co-creator of a hit PBS show, Alisha garneredmultiple Emmy wins. She works with major networks, such as CBS, Freeform, HGTV, NBC Universal and Netflix to develop content on multi-platforms, often starring in them.

She is in development with Four Leaf Productions for her delightful wedding romcom written with partner, Meg Swertlow. Alisha sold an animated seriesfor Latin America, Pequeña Araña, about a tiny bow-wearing spider.

She is a National Endowment for the Arts and Indiana Endowment for the Arts grant recipient for her filmmaking - shining a light on women’s mental health.

She is a best-selling author, publishing multiple books to critical acclaim covering topics from acting to weaning, menstruation to parenting.

As an actress, she has appeared on Broadway, at the Sydney Opera House, on numerous television shows, films, and voices many national commercials. Most recently, she was on a Verizon Superbowl ad with J. Balvin.

With her band (and husband), Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, Alishahas received numerous Grammy and Latin Grammy wins, while touring internationally performing shows for families. The couple also stars in a live-action television show, based on the band, in Asia.

Alisha has a deep passion for using her art for activism, social justice, and equality.

She lives in a house on a hill in Los Angeles with her family and many random fruit trees.  She also has appeared on numerous red carpet Best Dressed Lists – ask her about Vogue!