About Alexis
Billboard Pride VP & Editor Alexis Fish (center) with (from left) ilovemakonnen, Tegan and Sara, Hayley Kiyoko, Nolan Feeny and Big Freedia at the Billboard And The Hollywood Reporter Pride Summit on August 8, 2019, in West Hollywood, California. (Photo: Getty Images North America.)
Alexis Fish, NYWIFT Muse Award Recipient
For over two decades Alexis Fish has been at forefront of LGBTQ media advocating for and centering queer and BIPOC voices in publishing, film, tv and music.
In 2019, she joined MRC (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, MRC Film & TV and Dick Clark Productions) as Vice President of Pride focusing exclusively on creating LGBTQ verticals across all brands. In her role developing projects in Film and TV, she helped greenlight the large budget feature doc Queenmaker and brought in director Zackary Drucker. As editor of Billboard Pride, she created the first Billboard Pride List highlighting LGBTQ individuals in the music business and launched the first Billboard & The Hollywood Reporter Pride Summit. A critical and commercial success, the event introduced the brands to an entirely new creative, consumer, sales and industry audience. She pivoted the Summit’s second year to a virtual event bringing together the largest gathering of LGBTQ artists ever assembled virtually while launching The Hollywood Reporter’s first annual Pride issue and list.
In 2019, she joined MRC (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, MRC Film & TV and Dick Clark Productions) as Vice President of Pride focusing exclusively on creating LGBTQ verticals across all brands. In her role developing projects in Film and TV, she helped greenlight the large budget feature doc Queenmaker and brought in director Zackary Drucker. As editor of Billboard Pride, she created the first Billboard Pride List highlighting LGBTQ individuals in the music business and launched the first Billboard & The Hollywood Reporter Pride Summit. A critical and commercial success, the event introduced the brands to an entirely new creative, consumer, sales and industry audience. She pivoted the Summit’s second year to a virtual event bringing together the largest gathering of LGBTQ artists ever assembled virtually while launching The Hollywood Reporter’s first annual Pride issue and list.
In 2021 she was awarded New York Women in Film and TV’s (NYWFT) Muse Award alongside Sandra Oh and Darnell Martin celebrating women of vision and achievement. The theme of the 2021 awards was perseverance.
She was a founding editor of Condé Nast’s first LGBTQ vertical, them directing and producing the video driven brands inaugural tent pole videos and has now run point on GLAAD’s Spirit Day, the most visible LGBTQ anti-bullying campaign for the past two years.
She is an award winning producer having Executive Produced John Cameron Mitchell’s critically acclaimed queer feature Shortbus, as well as Pretty Things (HBO) and Tessa Thompson’s first starring feature Mississippi Damned. The past two years she has had the distinct privilege of programming panels for the Queer Lounge at Sundance including the follow-up to the seminal New Queer Cinema Panel with B Ruby Rich and Christine Vachon. Early in her career she was a SVP at the first LGBTQ independent television network, QTV.
At the heart of all of her work is the firm belief that media has the power to educate, impact and save lives. Her company School of Fish produces and consults worldwide in the LGBTQ/BIPOC inclusive media and entertainment spaces using her years of experience in film (narrative and documentary, tv, reality and short form) coupled with trusted relationships to help produce powerful changemaking media.
Alexis sits on the Board of the Outfest Los Angeles, the largest LGBTQ Film Festivals in the world, was an advisor for the launch of Lesbians Who Tech and continues to mentor numberous LGBTQ people and projects in the entertainment industry. She graduated from Smith College with a degree in Political Science and is an avid Pickleball player.