Pam Widener Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

Provide high-level writing and editing for a broad range of internal and external communications: • Draft speeches, talking points, presentations, firmwide emails, letters and more for firm leadership. • Write/edit video and podcast scripts. • Spearhead new internal communications campaigns and projects that support the firm's priorities and values, with a particular focus on DE&I initiatives. • Contribute intranet and website copy, press releases, rankings and awards submissions, attorney and speaker bios, thought leadership pieces, event-related materials, and other marketing materials as needed.

Greater New York City Area

Drafting speeches, talking points, scripts, and other prepared remarks for New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Various writing/producing roles on feature films, documentaries and TV series. Film/TV Credits:• Story Producer - "Buying the Rockies" (reality series) DESTINATION AMERICA (2015)• Story Producer - "Buying Alaska" (reality series) DESTINATION AMERICA (2014)• Story Producer - "Treasures of New York: The Flatiron Building" (doc short) WLIW/WNET (2014)• Segment Producer - "Behind the Music: Pink" (doc series) VH1 (2012)• Segment Producer - "Behind the Music: Ne-Yo" (doc series) VH1 (2012) • Associate Producer - "Behind the Music: Game" (doc series) VH1 (2011)• Coordinating Producer "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" VH1 (2011) *Nominated for 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming *Winner of Cine Golden Eagle• Story Editor/Associate Producer - "Sex: The Revolution" (4-part doc series) VH1 (2008)• Story Editor - "The Drug Years" VH1 (4-part doc series) (2006) *Winner of Cine Golden Eagle• Script Coordinator/Story Editor - "Street Time" (drama series) Showtime (2003)• Associate Producer - "Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder" (doc) HBO (2002)• Writer - "Brooklyn Babylon" (narrative feature) Artisan Entertainment/Canal+ (2001)• Associate Producer - "Backroads" (narrative feature) Offline Entertainment Group (1999)• Associate Producer - "Thug Life in D.C." (doc) HBO (1998) *Film won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special• Script Editor - "SLAM" (narrative feature) Trimark (1998) *Film won Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cannes Camera D'or• Series Researcher "CIA: America’s Secret Warriors" (doc series) Discovery Channel (1997)• Production Associate - "The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row" (doc) HBO (1997)• Production Associate - "Prisoners of the War on Drugs" (doc) HBO (1996)

Booking and producing all studio and location shoots for photographer Howard Schatz. Supervising castings; booking talent; hiring crew; field producing photo shoots at live events. Special projects included the Vanity Fair feature “In Character” as well as the coffee table books “Caught in the Act: Actors Acting” and “At the Fights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing.”

Greater New York City Area

Writing/editing annual reports, website content, donor citations, appeals letters, invitations, holiday cards and event programs; contributing articles to Baruch College Alumni Magazine; speechwriting for the president of the college.

Supervised creative development for all in-house film and tv projects; served as writer-in-residence; scouted new material; hired and supervised freelance script readers; generated creative notes on scripts, treatments, and dailies; helped negotiate writers’ contracts.

Wrote feature articles and regular copy; represented magazine at symposiums and other events; helped produce a series of HBO documentaries about the American prison system, including "Thug Life in D.C.," which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.

Los Angeles, Ca

Researched, prepared scripts, and helped edit more than a dozen feature and tv screenplays.

Ba, English

Mfa Program, Creative Nonfiction Writing

Completed one year of two-year program.

High School Diploma