Singeli Agnew

Singeli Agnew is a director, writer and cinematographer with more than 20 years of experience in innovative television and documentary work. 

In 2018 Singeli helped launch The Weekly, The New York Times' first original tv-documentary series, broadcast on FX and Hulu. Working with top reporters at the paper, the show set a new bar for investigative television documentaries. The show’s first season garnered nine Emmy nominations — winning five of those — and an Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow award. 

Before that, Singeli was based in Beirut as a cinematographer and producer for HBO’s nightly news series Vice News Tonight, responsible for driving coverage for their Middle East Bureau. She covered the fall of Mosul, the war in Afghanistan and conflict in Gaza and the West Bank. Her work for the show was nominated for six Emmys — including a win for her camera work — as well as an Overseas Press Club Award and a Murrow Award.

Singeli spent 5 years as a principal cinematographer and producer for Al Jazeera's flagship current affairs show, Fault Lines, where she covered the UN’s cholera cover-up in Haiti, civil war in South Sudan, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the long fall-out of the United States’ post-911 foreign policy. 

Most recently, she directed Citizen Nation, a four-part series for PBS that grapples with democracy through the eyes of American high school students. The series, produced by Retro Report, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and deemed "the antidote to every show you’ve seen about teens lately." It was awarded Best Episodic Series by the International Documentary Association in 2025.