Alison O’Daniel, a filmmaker and visual artist,  is the director of The Tuba Thieves, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2023 and went on to screen at CPH Dox, MOMA Doc Fortnight, SFFILM, IDFA, and many other international festivals and was broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS and Arte France/Germany in 2024.

O’Daniel is a United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums internationally, including Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels and others.

O’Daniel has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She has developed projects in various labs, including Points North; Sundance Talent Forum; True/False/Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, and has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

She is represented by Commonwealth and Council Gallery in Los Angeles and is the Suraj Israni Endowed Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Visual Arts department at University of California, San Diego.