Jay Prychidny

Biography:

Jay Prychidny, CCE is a multiple award-winning producer and picture editor, celebrated for his dynamic contributions to both scripted and factual television. He earned back-to-back Canadian Screen Award wins in 2017 and 2018 for his work on Orphan Black and The Amazing Race Canada.

Jay’s editing expertise has shaped some of Canada’s most-watched factual series, including The Week the Women Went, Top Chef Canada, and Canada’s Next Top Model, for which he received a Gemini Award and a Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) Award for Best Editing in 2010/2011.

In scripted television, Jay has served as a producer on Orphan Black, Lost & Found Music Studios, The Next Step, and Snowpiercer, overseeing editing, sound design, music composition, and visual effects across every episode. His editorial credits also include acclaimed series such as Altered Carbon, Killjoys, Into the Badlands, and The Alienist.

Jay made his feature editing debut with Scream VI for Paramount Pictures. His latest work is on Beetlejuice 2 for Warner Bros., marking his second collaboration with director Tim Burton. He previously edited all of Burton’s episodes of the hit Netflix series Wednesday, which earned him a Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Editing in 2023.