Olatunde Osunsanmi (born 23 October 1977; age 48) is a Nigerian-American director and producer who directed several episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, two episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks, and Star Trek: Section 31.
He also served as co-executive producer on the first and as executive producer on the second through fifth seasons of Discovery, on the second season of Short Treks, and on Star Trek: Section 31.
He also appeared in Star Trek: Section 31.
Osunsanmi, who has a Master of Fine Arts from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, started his career by directing a short called Etat (2000). Early in his career he worked as a production assistant on 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd and as a production staff member on The Tracy Morgan Show, as well as a script supervisor on the shorts Last Goodbye and Blue Light Café. In 2006, he was the assistant to Joe Carnahan, director and writer of Smokin' Aces (with Chris Pine and Joseph Ruskin).
After writing and directing the films Within (2005), The Fourth Kind (2009) and Evidence (2013) he moved into television in 2015. He has since directed episodes of Under the Dome, Extant, The Last Ship, Falling Skies (with Doug Jones), Minority Report, Sleepy Hollow (created by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman), Legends of Tomorrow (starring Victor Garber), Blindspot, Gotham, Colony, Bates Motel, The Son, and Timeless (with Susanna Thompson). On the fifth season of Falling Skies he also worked as a co-executive producer.
He is currently writing and directing the upcoming film Dark Moon.
Directorial credits[]
- DIS:
- "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"
- "What's Past Is Prologue"
- "Point of Light"
- "Such Sweet Sorrow"
- "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
- "That Hope Is You, Part 1"
- "Far From Home"
- "That Hope Is You, Part 2"
- "Kobayashi Maru"
- "Anomaly (DIS)"
- "Species Ten-C"
- "Coming Home"
- "Red Directive"
- "Life, Itself"
- ST:
- Star Trek: Section 31