Lyle Kash is a queer American transgender filmmaker of European and South Asian ancestry. In 2018 he formed T4T Productions, a loose collection of artists committed to putting trans people in front of and behind the camera lens. Under the auspices of T4T Productions (shorthand for Trans for Trans, an abbreviation which comes from the Craigslist personals ads of yesteryear), Kash wrote and directed his debut film, DEATH AND BOWLING, starring an almost entirely transgender cast. The film had its world premiere at Outfest in 2021 and continues to travel the international festival circuit. Kash first dreamed of a legal career, aiming to provide defense to trans people facing incarceration. Instead, his prison abolition work led him to pick up a camera, initially by providing media support to movement-building organizations. Now, Kash's work seeks to develop a transgender cinema that pairs form and theme through experimental approaches to casting, mise en scene, camera work, and performance style. His work pursues a freedom of fictional space for transgender cinema that is unburdened by today's ad nauseum calls for "authentic representation" in LGBT media activism. Originally from Greenwich, Connecticut, Kash now lives in the bed of his 1997 Toyota Tacoma with his red dog, Eddie. He bounces between the anchor points of Los Angeles and his little spot in a cow field on Chaseholm Farm, a third-generation queer dairy in Pine Plains, New York. His films have played at Outfest, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the San Diego Underground Film Festival, and more. Kash holds a BA from Oberlin College in Comparative American Studies and an MFA in Film/Video from CalArts.