About

BIOGRAPHY
Ty Leisher is a commercial director specializing in comedy-dialogue spots and loves to make people laugh.

Born in a suburb of Los Angeles, Ty began making movies at the age of eight years old when he borrowed his parents Mini DV Camera, and he has been hooked ever since. He knew that he wanted to be a director and spent his teenage years behind a computer writing screenplays and editing short films.

Ty has worked with numerous creatives at various agencies including R&R Partners, David & Goliath, Dailey Ideas and more. His passion for storytelling and penchant for making people laugh has helped him to create stunning advertisements and shorts.

After attending film school for two years, Ty ventured into the world of new media and started working on a daily video game show that was streamed to more than  twenty-thousand viewers every day.

In 2007, Ty began working as an on set assistant where he learned the in’s and out’s of a film set, both properly and poorly run. He worked on The Office, The Tony Rock Project and High School Musical.

Ty later found his way into the editing room, working as a post production assistant, assistant editor and editor at a major music video company.

In 2009, his love of animation and visual effects led him to work on a 3D short film directed by Andy Cheng, which allowed him to segue into work as a visual effects artist on Alice in Wonderland, Lost and a plethora of smaller projects at The Integration Company. Additionally, he spent all of 2009 writing a film review column for a newspaper of over one-hundred thousand subscriptions.

In 2011, Ty began work on his directorial reel by gathering a crew and creating a new spec commercial every month. Alongside his director of photography, Jon Meredith, and his producer, Lex Edelman, Ty was able to develop, prep, shoot and post six commercials in six months on a shoe string budget.

In addition to storytelling, Ty loves to spend time writing, taking photos, playing video games, watching films, reading, spending time with his wife, exploring animation and visual effects and playing odd sports, including frisbee golf and ultimate frisbee. He also has an obsession with loose leaf teas and freshly ground coffee.

Ty lives in El Segundo with his wife.

Ty is currently seeking representation.

ARTICLES / IN THE NEWS
2011 SpecBank.com Blog – Interview for Carl’s Jr. “Hunger Inside”
2011 SpecBank.com Blog – Interview for Virgin Mobile “Double Date”
2011 The Black and Blue - “I’m Stuck In A Rut, I Want To Direct” Guest Article