Sarah Maizes Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Transmedia Franchise Architect and Senior Creative Insider with 20+ years of unique and diverse experience developing and producing award-winning, high-performance, live-action, animated, comedy, and lifestyle content across media platforms for 4Q, Family, YA, and Kids.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Led the creative vision for Amazon’s award-winning digital platform offering 20,000+ pieces of licensed and original television series, shorts, specials, video games, Alexa skills, and books. Oversaw development, production and programming of all original content, and built E2E development and production pipelines to identify efficiencies and improve workflows.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Lead development executive in the creation and cultivation of HES’ development slate. Projects included live-action and animated series and specials for co-viewing/4Q audiences as well as preschool and kids 6-11 based on the HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Pink Jeep Tours, and Silver Dollar City.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Lead development and production executive for live-action, and animated (2D and CGI) series, specials, and spin-off features including HARRIET THE SPY (AppleTV+); HAGAR THE HORRIBLE (Hearst), DINOSAUR TRAIN: ADVENTURE ISLAND (NBC Universal), and Henson’s CREATURE SHOP HOLIDAY MOVIES (NBC Universal).

Santa Monica, Ca

Project-based production and development executive overseeing Season 1 of "Dino Dana"; Season 3 of "Tumble Leaf," and several high priority development projects for the kid's programming department at Amazon Studios.Responsibilities included: identifying strong material for the Studio; finding and pairing top writers and show runners; hearing pitches; provide creative guidance to producers and talent in the development and creation of all materials during production; reading scripts and giving creative feedback; key (temporary) network executive responsible for working with the production companies and/or animation studios during production timeline; liaison with business affairs and legal on management of schedules and budgets; and oversee all aspects of pre-production, physical production, post production on behalf of the Studio.

Regular columnist for the "TODAY Show" online (TODAY Parents); E!TV's "Fashion Police"; CBS/LA and freelance contributor to major media outlets including HuffingtonPost.com, More.com, CNN, MSNBC and Los Angeles Magazine; Creator of TODAY.com's popular feature, "Funniest Parents on Facebook"; Social media editor for The TODAY Show's parenting vertical; Strategized, managed, aggregated and generated social media programs and content for TODAYParents' Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest feeds in collaboration with NBC's Digital team.Additionally, I wrote and published the following award-winning children's picture books:- "On My Way to the Bath" (2012 Walker Books / Bloomsbury Children's Books)- "On My Way to Bed" (2013 Walker Books / Bloomsbury Children's Books)- "On My Way to School" (2014 Walker Books / Bloomsbury Children's Books)

Los Angeles / New York

FREELANCE WRITER: TV projects included Warner Brothers' digital short "Flintstones" project; Authored three (3) non-fiction humor books for Berkley/Penguin; and five (5) picture books for children (Bloomsbury/Walker Books/Grosset & Dunlap).FOUNDER AND EIC: MommyLiteOnline.com, a Top 25 Parenting Blog (awarded by PopSugar); Google Rating of 5.COMEDY WRITING / SKETCH COMEDY / STAND-UP: Company Member at Acme Comedy Theatre in Hollywood; Wrote and performed original material for weekly sketch shows; Created original characters for long-form improvisation shows; Performed stand-up comedy at major venues on both coasts including The Comedy Store in Hollywood, The Hollywood Improv; and Stand-Up NY.BOOKS: BOOKS (Non-Fiction Humor):"Got Milf? The Modern Mom's Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great and Rocking a Minivan!" (2011 Berkley Publishing Group) (WATCH BOOK TRAILER HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9vyXR2NsQ)"The Bridesmaid's Guerrilla Handbook" (2002 Berkeley Publishing Group); A Borders Top 50 Bestselling Trade Paperback."The Bridesmaid's Manual" (2013 Berkley Publishing Group)

• Developed Mattel's first animated BARBIE movies, BARBIE IN THE NUTCRACKER and BARBIE AS RAPUNZEL, which grossed $300 million combined in year one, and launched a $2 Billion franchise with 40 more feature films.• Developed projects for television and direct-to-video based on top-performing Mattel IP including HE-MAN, HOT WHEELS, MATCHBOX, POLLY POCKET, RESCUE HEROES, and MAX STEEL.• Developed strong characters that supported their own spin-offs and generated their own product.