Nena Erb, ACE, is a Los Angeles\u2013based picture editor. Raised in an Asian immigrant family, she pursued an art degree before entering the entertainment industry through a range of production roles, including associate producing. That experience led her to editing, where she combined visual sensibility with narrative craft, establishing a career editing projects for studios and platforms including HBO, Apple, Universal, and others.<\/p>\n
Erb’s television work includes significant contributions to HBO’s\u00a0Insecure\u00a0(2016), where she edited multiple episodes across several seasons from 2018 to 2021, and to the CW’s\u00a0Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\u00a0(2015), editing episodes from 2017 to 2019. Her credits also include HBO’s\u00a0Generation\u00a0(2021), Apple TV+’s\u00a0Little America (2020),\u00a0Being Mary Jane\u00a0(2013),\u00a0Real Husbands of Hollywood\u00a0(2013), and competition and reality series such as\u00a0Top Chef (2006) and\u00a0Dancing with the Stars (2005). Earlier in her career, she worked extensively in unscripted television and reality programming.<\/p>\n
In feature film, Erb edited\u00a0Joy Ride\u00a0(2023), directed by Adele Lim, and\u00a0Downtown Owl (2023). She has also edited short films and television movies, maintaining a parallel presence in long-form and short-form storytelling.<\/p>\n
Erb won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series in 2020 for\u00a0Insecure (2016), episode “Lowkey Trying” (2020), shared with Lynarion Hubbard, and previously won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2016 for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program for\u00a0Project Greenlight (2001), episode “Accident Waiting to Happen.” She received an additional Primetime Emmy nomination in 2022 for\u00a0Insecure\u00a0(2016), episode “Choices, Okay?!” (2021). Her work has also earned multiple American Cinema Editors Eddie Award nominations for\u00a0Insecure (2016) and\u00a0Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015). She won the Hollywood Professional Association Award in 2020 for Outstanding Editing for\u00a0Insecure\u00a0(2016), episode “Lowkey Trying” (2020).<\/p>\n
Erb is a member of the American Cinema Editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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