Our Company
Lake Park Girl Productions was founded by Taniesah Evans in 2020 during a year of immense human struggle, and constant change during a global pandemic.
However, through the chaos - we find moments of beauty, honestly, and emotional resilience that bring hope, peace & joy to those who seek it.
Genuine Stories
How do you create a genuinely honest story? You go directly to the storytellers, you listen, and empower their voices.
We work directly with creatives to provide development assistance, production, financing, branding, marketing, distribution and more…
whatever drives the best, most unique storytelling.
We work in close partnership to find the right audience, and the right outlet for their voice and vision to be expressed.
Founder & CEO
Taniesah Evans
I originally conceived the idea of Lake Park Girl in 2016 while living in Los Angeles, reflecting on my past and thinking about what was next.
I was born on the Southside of Chicago, and grew up in a volatile and violent area called Washington Park Homes (the projects).
As a child, I was keenly aware of the environment around me, but I never felt the hopelessness that trapped so many others. Because inside this community were so many wonderful people who had such amazing stories and spirits.
I read a lot as a child, consuming thousands and thousands of pages. When my mother sent me to go play with the other children “downstairs”, I would often go sit on the playground bench and just read.
Each book helped shape my global view of the world. I learned to identify with other people and cultures through the characters in each book. I felt like Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
Then I took it a step further, and would listen to the elders sitting on the benches, and the men drinking on the corner as they told their colorful stories.
These stories were fantastic, engaging, humorous and sometimes even heartbreaking; but most of all they were real. I would watch, and eagerly listen; magically transported to a time and place within each story.
Whether it was haunted ghost stories from my family, while visiting “down south”, or the criminal exploits of those in my community; I was hooked.
They used to have a saying about the older you get, the more you go back to your past - and I believe that holds true. Lake Park Girl is the manifestation of my childhood, all of the memories, and all of the richness handed down through generations.
In Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the world, I have met and befriended people who have amazing stories. These people are more complex and talented in ways that others could not, or have cared not to see.
I decided it was time to forgo with traditional models, and do what is right; allowing this group of diverse creative talent to have control of their stories and a megaphone for it to be heard.
The building where I grew up, 4155 S. Lake Park no longer stands, but I stand proudly to say that I’m a Lake Park Girl.
