Alice Mathias

Alice Mathias is an American television director and producer from Chicago. In high school, she performed in musicals and dabbled in improv.

Career

Television Mathias joined the IFC sketch comedy series Portlandia as an intern during its first season and rose to become the show's executive producer and director.

She also served as a producer on Documentary Now!, receiving two additional Emmy nominations for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. and won the award in 2023. An episode she directed, "Has This Ever Happened to You?", was named one of the best TV episodes of 2019 by IndieWire.

Mathias was an executive producer on the HBO Spanish-language comedy Los Espookys, which ran for two seasons (2019–2022). The series won a Peabody Award in 2023.

Her other directing credits include History of the World, Part II, Schmigadoon!, and That Damn Michael Che. In 2025, she directed Totino's' first Super Bowl commercial, featuring Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson.