The Team
Nearly the entire behind-the-scenes creative team are a part of the queer-trans umbrella or have been directly impacted by suicide. Here are just a few of us who carried this baby along.
Lexie Bean, Co-Director
Lexie Bean (they/he) is a trans multimedia artist whose work revolves around themes of bodies, homes, cyclical violence, and queer identity. They have been working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault for over 15 years - generating events, writings, books, and short films - with a special focus on fellow trans and childhood sexual abuse survivors. They’re a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, resigned member of the RAINN National Leadership Council, and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for their anthology Written on the Body. Lexie integrated their personal experiences into the acclaimed The Ship We Built, the first middle grade novel centering and written by a trans boy released by a major USA publisher, and is adapting it into a stop-motion feature film. What Will I Become? is Lexie's co-directed debut feature documentary.
Logan Rozos , Co-Director
Logan (he/him) is an actor, writer, director, and gay black trans man. He made his professional acting debut in the Peabody-nominated drama David Makes Man, and voice the audiobook of Stonewall Award nominated Felix Ever After. He was an honoree in Teen Vogue’s 20 Under 20 Queer Artists and Activists to Watch and honored in Them magazine’s 2025 superlatives. What Will I Become? is his directing debut and he was a Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow through this project.
Drew Dickler, Producer
Drew Dickler (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Most recently, her short documentary Big Bass won a Jury Award at the 2025 Palm Springs ShortFest and premiered internationally at Raindance. Her first feature, Fireboys, about young incarcerated men fighting wildfires in California, streamed on HBO and was chosen for the American Film Showcase. In 2022, she was selected for the Sundance Institute Producers Intensive for her work on What Will I Become?. Drew is the co-founder of Deep Dive Films.
Harper Steele, Executive Producer
Harper Steele is an Iowa City native and a graduate of the University of Iowa. She is an Emmy-winning veteran comedy writer and producer, most known for her thirteen years with Saturday Night Live where she eventually became the head writer. After leaving Saturday Night Live, Steele took over as Creative Director of the comedy website Funny or Die, started by her friends Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. While at Funny or Die, Steele wrote the films, Casa De Mi Padre, Deadly Adoption, and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Most recently, Steele was the subject of the Netflix documentary Will & Harper, which chronicles her evolving relationship with longtime collaborator and friend Will Ferrell. The documentary centers around a road trip the two friends take across America for the first time since Harper’s transition, and nearly thirty years after they first met on the set of Saturday Night Live.
Patrick Stump, Executive Producer
Patrick (he/him) is a Grammy nominated songwriter, producer, and front-man of Fall Out Boy. He is passionate about music education and mental health support for youth, previously collaborating with Save the Music. He also has a long career in composing music for film and TV projects on DisneyPlus and Amazon Prime.
Carrie Lozano, Executive Producer
Carrie (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and media executive. She is currently President and CEO of ITVS, public media's leading incubator and co-producer of independent film, and presenter of the series Independent Lens.
Lois Vossen, Executive Producer
Lois (she/her) is the Founding Executive Producer of Independent Lens, having been with the series since its inception as a PBS primetime series. Independent Lens films have received 27 Emmy Awards, 28 George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, and 10 Academy Award nominations.
Geoff Pingree, Producer
Geoff Pingree is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and writer, and Professor and Chair of Cinema and Media at Oberlin College. He is a National Emmy Award winner for A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America (PBS). His photography received National Geographic’s 2008 World in Focus Grand Prize and has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, etc. His writing on media, culture, and politics has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Wired, The Nation, The Economist, etc. Pingree co-directed and co-produced BLUE DESERT ~ Towards Antarctica with Rian Brown, a multi-channel video installation exhibited at festivals and museums across the U.S., including the Newseum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. With Brown, he also co-directed and co-produced The Foreigner’s Home, a feature documentary that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at venues including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the British Film Institute, the Uffizi Gallery, and the Hammer Museum. He directed and produced The Return of Elder Pingree – Memoir of a Departed Mormon, which premiered at the Santa Cruz Film Festival and received the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Lonely Seal International Festival. Pingree is the co-founder and director of StoryLens Pictures.
Ricki Stern, Producer
Ricki Stern, founder of Break Thru Films, is an Emmy and Spirit Award nominated documentary director, producer, and writer. Ricki’s work includes NATURE OF THE CRIME (HBO 2024), A RADICAL LIFE (Discovery +, 2022), UFOs INVESTIGATING THE UNKOWN (CNN 2023), SURVIVING DEATH (NETFLIX, 2020) JOAN RIVERS – A PIECE OF WORK (IFC Films 2010), NEGLECT NOT THE CHILDREN (PBS 1992). With Annie Sundberg: MY SO-CALLED HIGH SCHOOL RANK (HBO 2022), REVERSING ROE (Netflix 2018), MARATHON – The Patriots Day Bombing (HBO 2016), THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (HBO 2007), THE TRIALS OF DARYL HUNT, (HBO 2006), IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE (Showtime 2015), KNUCKLEBALL! (Showtime 2012), BURMA SOLDIER (HBO 2011), IN MY CORNER (PBS), PREPPY MURDER –Death in Central Park (AMC/Sundance), SURVIVING JEFFREY EPSTEIN (Lifetime). Lifetime Achievement Award (Full Frame Documentary FF), the Best Female Filmmakers Award (San Diego FF), The Best Female Filmmakers Award (St. Louis FF), Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award, Lena Sharpe/Women in Cinema Persistence of Vision Award (Seattle IFF)
David Sherwin, Producer
David Sherwin is a Brooklyn native, Emmy-nominated director, producer, editor, and co-founder at Deep Dive Films. His work includes producing feature documentaries such as Fireboys (HBOMAX) and What Will I Become? premiering at Berlinale in 2026, as well as directing award winning short documentaries for Google. His short form editorial work has received praise from The Webbys, The Today Show, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The James Beard Foundation, and many others.