Trish Adlesic

Pittsburgh native Trish Adlesic is the producer of the 2011 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary (Feature), Gasland. Written and directed by Jason Fox, Gasland focuses on communities in the U.S. impacted by natural gas drilling, specifically the method known as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). Adlesic is of Slovenian descent on her father’s side and Irish on her mother’s, who traces her roots to Dublin and Cork.