Kurt Sayenga is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and producer. He is the executive producer/showrunner of the ongoing documentary series Eli Roth's History of Horror, which airs on AMC TV. The first season aired in fall of 2018; in 2020 it was awarded a Reelscreen Award for Non-Fiction Arts and Cultural Program. Season Two aired in Fall 2020; Season Three is now in production for Fall 2021. Sayenga wrote and directed all 19 episodes of the series and conducted over 200 interviews for it. Interviewees include a host of film scholars and creators including Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Cate Blanchett, Geena Davis, Bill Hader, Megan Fox, Ari Aster, Rob Zombie, Greg Nicotero, Nancy Allen, Diablo Cody, Jack Black, Tippi Hedren, John Landis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jordan Peele, Doug Jones, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Richard Donner, Dean Cundey, Robert Englund, Tobin Bell, Tony Todd, Stuart Gordon, Bryan Fuller, Howard Shore, Mary Harron, Tom Savini, Joe Hill, Victor LaValle, Bruce Campbell, Leonard Maltin, Edgar Wright, and Leigh Whannell. Sayenga also produced the second season of the Shudder podcast Eli Roth's History of Horror Uncut, which is based on interviews conducted for the TV series. In 2017, Sayenga was the executive producer/showrunner of the 2017 National Geographic specia l Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron and the eight-part National Geographic docuseries Origins, hosted by Jason Silva. He was also the EP/showrunner of the science anthology series Breakthrough, a coproduction of National Geographic Channel, GE, Imagine Entertainment, and Asylum Entertainment. The first season of the series, which premiered in 2015, featured films directed by Ron Howard, Paul Giamatti, Angela Bassett, Peter Berg, Akiva Goldsman, and Brett Ratner. The second season, which premiered May 2017, featured films directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, David Lowery, Shane Carruth and Kurt Sayenga, The Malloys, Steven Hoggard, and Shalini Kantayya. Previously, Sayenga was an executive producer at Revelations Entertainment, where he wrote, directed, and produced 15 episodes of the Emmy-nominated series Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Biography Throughout his young adulthood Sayenga was active in the Washington, D.C. punk music scene. He created, edited, and was the head writer of Greed Magazine in the late 1980s, one of the first magazines to fuse coverage of underground music, literature and "high" and "low" art. On the pop culture side, Greed featured interviews with acts such as Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Daniel Johnston, The Swans,