Tony Tost is an American film director, poet, critic and screenwriter. He is the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Damnation, a neo-western period drama about the labor wars in America during the 1930s that aired on USA Network and on Netflix outside the US. He is also the writer and director of Americana, a 2023 rural crime drama from Lionsgate, and the showrunner for the second season of the mystery show Poker Face on Peacock.