Kristen Lappas is an award-winning director and producer with Words + Pictures. Lappas has twice won Emmys for her short sports documentaries (Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible and A Mountain to Climb) and has also had her work featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, and honored by AFI Docs, the NAMIC Vision Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and more. Her short film Arthur (2017) was adapted into a narrative film in 2024, starring Mark Wahlberg. Lappas served as a consultant on the project. Lappas’ 30 for 30 multi-part documentary titled Dream On (2022) was nominated for an IDA Award and Lappas won in the “Best Non-Fiction Show Director” category at the Women’s Image Awards for the series. In 2024, it was named one of the 25 best sports documentaries of all time by Vogue. Lappas’ additional directing credits include the Emmy nominated Amazon Documentary Giannis: The Marvelous Journey (2024) and the Emmy nominated ESPN docuseries Full Court Press (2024) which followed Caitlin Clark, Kamilla Cardoso, and Kiki Rice throughout the historic 2024 women’s college basketball season. She has also produced multiple installments of the 30 for 30 series during her time with ESPN Films. Her latest documentary series titled The Kingdom, premiered on Disney+ and ESPN on August 14th. Recently, Kristen was selected as a part of the “Leaders Under 40 Class of 2025” by Leaders in Sport. She is a graduate of Boston College and resides in Westport, CT with her husband and two daughters.