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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Culver City, California, United States

- Focused on building franchise opportunities in kids and family entertainment. - Driving the development and go-to-market of many of the tentpole IP programs. - Leading the special initiatives for these original projects from concept to completion by establishing creative strategies and cross-team collaboration with franchise development, content, marketing, consumer products, animation, and video.

Glendale, California, United States

RUBY GILLMAN TEENAGE KRAKENUNRELEASED FEATURE PROJECTPUSS IN BOOTS; THE LAST WISH- Led projects from development to greenlight and through production by establishing creative strategies in art, story, edit, and casting.- Created production milestones and successfully guided teams through all sequence turnovers, screenings, pitches and presentations.- Managed and provided creative input from weekly executive meetings, writers rooms, script reviews, and daily director sessions.- Responsible for building hiring plan and budget to grow a well balanced team. Developed front end workflow, schedules, and processes.- Collaborated with casting to craft unique talent ensembles and built recording schedules to meet all animation priorities.- Managed all talent recording sessions. Coordinating with head of casting, sound engineers, talent reps, and talent directly. Oversaw and approved all planning, call sheets, and updates to executive teams on recording goals and logistics. - Routinely met with and closely communicated all updates with producers, directors, production staff, marketing, and heads of departments.

Culver City, Ca

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE- Established strong relationships with Academy Award winning filmmakers & crew - building and leading team communication and morale.- Proactively located artists worldwide to build diverse, inspired, and highly skilled teams. Worked closely with and mentored production staff.- Partnered with back end vendor, Imageworks, to guide a new 2D to 3D art workflow - achieving the challenging and unique look of the film.- Prioritized edit-to-animation iterations alongside director in animation dailies. Streamlining the approval process to finalize shots.- Managed all on-site talent recording sessions. Liaised to casting, business affairs, and talent reps as needed.

Los Angeles, California, United States

BLOOD IS THICKER (live action feature)- Partnered with producer to build pitch packages for casting. Communicating directly with agencies. - Contributed extensive script coverage. Managing timely group feedback with writer/director.- Created script-breakdown. Advised on budget scenarios. - Located artist and directed initial design concept for logo and look of presentations.

Glendale, California, United States

ABOMINABLETHE CROODS 2UNRELEASED TV PROJECTUNRELEASED FEATURE PROJECT- Worked closely alongside "Croods" directors simultaneously on development of an original television concept and the feature's sequel.- Established relationship, communication, and pitch workflow with FOX (potential distributor).- Staffed and balanced multiple teams of artists across various projects..- Created production scenarios for possible co-productions. Reporting to Head of Production.- Mentored front end staff to establish and manage Editorial workflow and approvals.

Glendale, Ca

THE BOSS BABYTHE CROODSKUNG FU PANDA HOLIDAYSCARED SHREKLESS- Created all screening planning and strategy while managing story & editorial notes to quickly map out production's Action Items.- Oversaw introduction of FLIX for studio to become first production at DreamWorks to spearhead the newly established story-edit publishing.- Managed all production recording sessions with voice talent. Worked with producers and writers to guide workflow to approve all pages.- Coordinated with producers, directors, writers, and legal to organize all script changes and notes.

Glendale, Ca

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGONKUNG FU PANDA - Closely involved in creative art, story, and editorial reviews with department heads - driving notes and running creative presentations.- Responsible for managing daily visual development artist assignments, story asset & sequences changes, and scheduling deliveries.- Tracked extensive list of art assets for Art of Book and maintained regular check-ins with legal and marketing.

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (season 2)AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (season 7)TOP CHEF (season 2)UNRELEASED TV PILOT (pre-production)

UNRELEASED FEATURE (pre-production)L.A. NIGHTTALLADEGA NIGHTS; THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBYHOME OF THE GIANTSTHE GRAVEDANCERSTHE WATER IS WIDENATIONAL LAMPOON'S PUCKED

Bachelors, Film & Televsion Production

Playwriting And Screenwriting