Cody McLeod Rogers is an American Filmmaker, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, and Composer from Coal City, Illinois. He is known for NEXT at the Kennedy Center (2022), Maybe It's Time  (2024), The Story We Wrote (2023), The Informidable Death of My Mother (2024), and Moonlight in March (2024). Rogers started his journey as a filmmaker at age 16 when he began his first production company. What started as small projects for local municipalities quickly grew to documentary work bringing him across North and Central America capturing stories from worker exploitation to climate change. Rogers attended American University in Washington D.C. where he received a B.A. in Film and Media Arts and minored in Music Performance. During this time, he worked many jobs ranging from Information Technology to dog-walking, to Door Staff at the local DC Improv Comedy Club. His senior year, Rogers received a Producing Internship at the Kennedy Center which later led to his role as a Producer at the center and for the television series NEXT at the Kennedy Center.

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Much of Rogers's work deals with intimate and complicated relationships among family members. His style involves elements of ultra-realism and a focus on character rather than critical events.