2019 Speakers

Adams is an award winning producer most recently known for the Netflix Original adaptation of Roger Guenveur Smith’s solo performance piece Rodney King, directed by Academy Award nominee Spike Lee. Adams holds credit as a VFX executive producer for such Academy Award winners as James Cameron’s Avatar, Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi, Thor for Marvel Studios, as well as Green Lantern, Green Hornet, Stephen Sommers’ Odd Thomas, The Artist, The Intouchables and Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Adams is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy, Advisory Board member for ITVFest, Board Ambassador for the Blackhouse Foundation, and the Los Angeles Art Association Advisory Board.

Featured in the 2019 International Women’s Impact Report, Albuquerque is in charge of all content portfolio and artistic resources such as, casting, directors and writers for Globo Studios. She was previously head of corporate communications at Globo, where she was responsible for strategic conceptualization of all communication actions across programs and telenovelas. With over 20 years of experience in the area of corporate communications, Albuquerque has worked at major media players.

Aouate is president of Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company, defining and executing the company’s creative vision across both development and production. Aouate joined Fabrik in 2014 as senior vice president and was appointed president of the company in 2017.
Prior to joining Fabrik, Aouate was a literary agent for ICM Partners representing television writers, novelists and personalities. She was an executive for Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers working on feature films including Flight starring Denzel Washington, Real Steel starring Hugh Jackman, the motion capture animation features Polar Express and Beowulf, and the Fox Television Studios/Showtime Emmy® Award-winning original series The Borgias.
Fabrik’s prestigious slate of projects includes the series Bosch (Amazon), The Killing (AMC & Netflix), 100 Code (WGN & HBO Nordic), The Comedians (FX), Burn Notice (USA), American Odyssey (NBC), and The Good Guys (Fox). Aouate and Fabrik CEO Henrik Bastin drive the company’s relationships with a vast array of domestic and internationally recognized television creators, writers and production entities. Fabrik is known for its ability to translate international content to American audiences and vice versa.
“Today’s consumers demand an ever wider array of challenging and high quality entertainment choices,” said Aouate. “Fabrik’s mandate to align with the leading figures in the global television and film arenas is the natural result of that consumer demand, brought about, to a certain degree, by advancing technologies. The days of working exclusively with a small roster of content providers in the U.S. are over. We actively embrace the larger international landscape of amazing talent. We see an unlimited potential for new stories, new storytellers and compelling properties and we don’t have any preconceived notions about where those stories will originate.”

Producer and writer, Aranya, has set up 40 scripted shows at US and international studios and networks. His shows include Red Widow and Betrayal for ABC and Hostages at CBS. He’s currently in production on Your Honor starring Brian Cranston at Showtime with Peter Moffat writing and Robert and Michelle King Producing as well as Until The Wedding at ABC. Aranya struck a two-year first look deal with CBS Studios International through his newly established company Paper Plane Productions. The company’s first international project, District Y, a co-production with the writer of Fauda and the Public Broadcaster in Israel was recently announced.

Barmack has recently left Netflix to start his own production company focused on international series.
Prior to this move, Barmack headed international originals for Netflix, and was responsible for the strategy, budget, and creative vision of a team of over forty executives that has helped create over 100 productions in more than twenty-five countries.  These productions — including Dark, Elite, The Protector and Casa De Las Flores — have consistently reached large audiences outside of their home territories, and have been nominated for, and won, multiple national and global awards, including the International Emmys. 
Prior to serving in this position, Barmack served in a variety of senior roles at Netflix, including vice president of independent content.  He has also worked at ESPN/Disney in strategy and business development, and created a start-up, Small World Sports, which was later sold to Vulcan Ventures.
With his new venture, Barmack has set up shows with producers in Spain, Brazil, India, and Holland, and will be announcing his first slate of international productions shortly.  

Christian is a veteran talent agent with more than twenty years in the industry working in both the literary as well as talent space. Past clients include Oscar winners Melissa Leo, Octavia Spencer, Mo’Nique, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Elizabeth Moss. Within the lit space she’s personally responsible for more than 1,000 hours of on air primetime programing.

Seven years ago, she opened TCA Jed Root, a Los Angeles based boutique talent agency specializing in trained character actors, writers, and producers. The agency features an international client list and clients working mostly on award winning programming (Mr. Robot, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Man in the High Castle, Narcos, Stranger Things….).

We’re doing something special at TCA Jed Root; we’re repping talent that we’re insanely passionate about and keeping the list intentionally small so we can give the same attention as a manager with the aggression and deal making skills usually found at larger agencies.

Today Christian doesn’t just find opportunities for actors in film and television or sell successful reality programming. She’s also an executive producer. Her first film, Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy starring Laura Dern and Kirsten Stewart was chosen to close the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

Christian lives in Los Angeles and is a supporter of American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Central Park.

Cotton is executive vice president, head of scripted Programming for EPIX, overseeing development and production of all original scripted series on the network. Since joining EPIX in February 2018, Cotton has greenlit new originals The Godfather of Harlem starring and produced by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker and created by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein (Narcos); DC origin story Pennyworth created and executive produced by Bruno Heller (Gotham, Rome) and executive produced and directed by Danny Cannon; Perpetual Grace, LTD starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Jackie Weaver and Jimmi Simpson and created and executive produced by Steve Conrad and Bruce Terris (Patriot) as well as the upcoming Julian Fellowes (Downton Abby) series, Belgravia. Under Cotton’s purview, EPIX’s growing roster of original scripted series also includes Season 3 of critically-acclaimed dark comedy Get Shorty starring Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano and season 2 of spy-thriller Deep State starring Joe Dempsie and Karima McAdams.
Prior to joining EPIX, Cotton was president, Heyday TV USA. Working with David Heyman (Harry Potter, Gravity, The Light Between Oceans), she oversaw series targeted for broadcast, cable, and streaming, including The In Between, a dramatic series from showrunner Moira Kirland, picked up to series by NBC. At Heyday TV, Cotton also had projects in development with Emmy and Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier, Oscar-nominated writer Richard Lagravenese, Oscar-nominated director Jamie Donoughue, and celebrated actor Patrick Dempsey.
From 2007-2016, Cotton was senior vice president, creative affairs at Fox 21 Television Studios (formerly Fox Television Studios). She developed and oversaw the award-winning and critically acclaimed drama The Americans (FX), the Emmy-nominated series The Killing (AMC and Netflix), and Queen of the South (USA), starring Alice Braga. She also developed The Chi (Showtime), written by Emmy award winner Lena Waithe, as well as Veena Sud’s Seven Seconds (Netflix). In addition, she oversaw The Comedians (FX), starring multi-award winning actors Billy Crystal and Josh Gad, Oscar-winner Holly Hunter’s Emmy-nominated Saving Grace (TNT), and Emmy-nominated The Riches (FX), starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.
Prior to FTVS, Cotton was head of television for Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions where she executive-produced broadcast series including Kevin Hill (UPN), starring Taye Diggs, Clubhouse (CBS), starring Dean Cain, Mare Winningham and Christopher Lloyd, and Complete Savages (ABC), co-created by Mike and Julie Thacker Scully. Cotton also executive produced the acclaimed 10-part documentary series Carrier (PBS), which followed the US Navy’s nuclear aircraft supercarrier USS Nimitz on its six-month tour to the Persian Gulf in 2005.
Cotton was Vice President of Programming for Mandalay Television, where she produced Young Americans (WB), starring Kate Bosworth and Ian Sommerholder, and worked on Jeremy Piven vehicle Cupid (ABC), created by Rob Thomas (creator of Veronica Mars). Before Mandalay, Cotton was director, drama series at ABC, and oversaw numerous series including David Kelley’s award-winning The Practice. Cotton began her television career as an assistant in the television literary department at The William Morris Agency.

Creasey is executive VP of distribution, based in Los Angeles.  He oversees sales, co-productions and acquisitions in the US, as well as leading the distribution teams in Latin America, Canada, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
 
With over 22 years’ experience spanning a wide range of territories and genres Creasey has been at the forefront of Endemol Shine’s scripted co-production business in LA since moving there in 2010 working across titles such as Peaky Blinders, Flowers, Frankenstein Chronicles, Grantchester, Tin Star among many titles.

Davis got her start in entertainment by producing indie low-budget projects including music videos, short films and digital content. In the web-series realm she is best known for producing Issa Rae’s award-winning web series “The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl”. She is currently a producer on the HBO comedy series Insecure and an executive producer on the upcoming HBO limited series The Dolls while continuing to produce and oversee content for Issa Rae Productions. She also serves as COO of ColorCreative, which provides access and opportunities for diverse and emerging writers and recently sold their first feature film Love In America to Universal. Originally from Las Vegas NV, Davis is an alum of CUNY-Brooklyn College and the American Film Institute Conservatory.

de Abreu is a well know Brazilian actor, director and writer. He has been involved with over 20 successful telenovelas and miniseries and has a vast knowledge in the subject. He is part of the generation of writers that developed the language of Brazilian telenovelas.

Dey is chief executive officer and founder of ACF, a leading international Investment Bank, specialized in selling, buying, fundraising and post deal services for businesses in intellectual property, content creation and international distribution.
With offices in the UK and USA, ACF have advised on more than 90 transactions in the media and entertainment sector with a combined transaction value of over $5 billion.
Dey has over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and was previously a partner heading Grant Thornton’s media investment banking division. He is regularly honoured by Variety in its annual Dealmaker Impact Report which is described as the ‘big Hollywood players’ who are ‘transforming the town’s business’ and the ‘power players who shape showbiz’.
Dey’s high profile deals include the sale of Pilgrim Studios (producer of Ultimate Fighter) to Lionsgate (producer of Hunger Games); the sale of Leftfield Entertainment (Pawn Stars and Real Housewives of New Jersey) to ITV Plc (The UK’s largest commercial network); the sale of Love Productions (creator of The Great British Bake off) to Sky and the sale of Top Gear (the world’s most popular show with 350 million weekly viewers) on behalf of Jeremy Clarkson to BBC.

As chief creative officer at ITV America, Eilenberg is responsible for guiding the company’s creative strategy, leveraging intellectual property, and identifying and managing emerging cable, broadcast and digital platform growth opportunities across the group. He also works closely with ITV’s UK-based team to exploit a range of formats for US development and production.

Previously, Eilenberg was president of US production label ITV Entertainment (producer of three-time Emmy winner Queer Eye for Netflix), where since March 2016 he guided the company’s content creation, including development, programming and production across a range of genres (as CCO, he maintains creative oversight of ITV Entertainment).

Among the series Eilenberg spearheaded are FOX’s long-running Hell’s Kitchen (seasons 19 and 20 just announced) and The Four: Battle for Stardom, the Netflix reboot of the megahit Queer Eye, A&E’s The First 48 (now in season 14), The Job Interview (CNBC), Four Weddings (TLC), and the upcoming US edition of the hit international format Love Island (CBS), among others.

Prior to ITV, Eilenberg was senior vice president of unscripted development, late night and specials at Turner, overseeing for TNT and TBS hit series including King of the Nerds, Cold Justice and Howie Mandel’s Deal with It, as well as late-night series CONAN, starring Conan O’Brien. Previously, Eilenberg was head of development and current programming for Mark Burnett Productions where he helped sell, develop and produce myriad popular and award-winning series, including The Voice, Shark Tank, The Bible and Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination.

Also a prolific creator, writer and producer, Eilenberg was head writer on Weakest Link and a writer on Da Ali G Show. He also was co-director/producer of the critically acclaimed documentary On Common Ground, and co-created the series Dismissed.

Fenton founded Zig Zag in 1999 and has established the company as an innovative transatlantic television production company, respected for its eclectic approach to over 700 hours of programme making. The company is one of the largest remaining truly independent UK production companies.
Prior to Zig Zag Fenton began his career at the BBC and spent a brief time working with a number of UK production companies.
Fenton is renowned in the international TV industry not only as a pioneer of audacious ideas, but he has a strong track record of unearthing new TV talent. Recent discoveries include magicians Dynamo and Troy and adventurer Richard Parks, whom he has taken to international audiences.
Fenton is executive producer on all Zig Zag productions. Recent shows he has created include ‘I Wanna Marry Harry’ for Fox, ‘Scam City’ and ‘Apocalypse 101’ for National Geographic, ‘Troy’ for Channel 4 and ‘Xtreme Endurance: Race to the Pole’ for Channel 5. Other recent hit productions include ‘Body Bizarre’ for Discovery, ‘Split Second’ for Nickleodeon and ‘Ultimate Brain’ for CBBC.
Fenton is a regular speaker at a major industry conferences, judge for several industry awards and a commentator in the international trade media.

Frontain Bryant is executive vice president and head of programming at A&E Network, a position she has held since March 2015. She manages the A&E programming team and is responsible for overseeing the development, creation and execution of all programming for the network. She is also charged with integrating new programming with digital initiatives and developing ways to expand the brand across multiple platforms.

Frost is an accomplished showrunner, executive producer and screenwriter.

Her Starz limited drama series, The Spanish Princess, is currently airing which she is the showrunner/EP alongside her (now) TV show-running partner, Matthew Graham. The show is a sequel to Frost’s acclaimed series The White Princess starring Jodie Comer, and her Golden Globe and Emmy nominated BBC1/Starz co-production The White Queen which starred Rebecca Ferguson. The Los Angeles Times recently hailed the new series as one that “continues the anthology’s dedication to sweeping cinematic beauty, spot-on casting and smart storytelling while introducing a fresh culture, language and religion to drab old England.”

Frost’s recent screenplays include Zelda for Jennifer Lawrence to star and Ron Howard to direct, with producers Justine Ciarrocchi and Imagine; Switched On for Focus Features, based on John Elder Robison’s book, which Marc Platt Productions/The Combine will produce; an adaptation of All These Beautiful Strangers for Bruna Papandrea’s ‘Made-Up Stories’, with a further screenplay commission in the works for Made-Up stories.

In the UK, Frost adapted Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn for BBC1, and her original film BBC4 film Consuming Passion won 5 star reviews. Frost trained as a fine artist. She is also a playwright.

Emmy award winning writer and director Raff is the creator of the Israeli series Hatufim (“Prisoners of War”) the highest-rated drama series in Israel which also won nine Israeli Emmy® Awards, including Best Directing for Raff and Best Drama Series. Hatufim’s American adaptation, Homeland, is now in it’s
7th season, starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin. For his work on Homeland, Raff has received two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a WGAAward, an Edgar Allen Poe Award® and a Peabody Award. Following Homeland, Raff created the FX drama series Tyrant, and co created, wrote and directed Dig an event series starring Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche for USA. Raff wrote and directed the feature film, The Red Sea Diving Resort starring Chris Evans, Sir Ben Kingsley, Greg Kinnear and Michael K Williams for BRON studios.
Currently Raff finished shooting his NETFLIX show The Spy, based on the life
of Eli Cohen, starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Raff wrote and directed all 6
episodes.
In addition to his work on television and film, Raff is a bestselling novelist in Israel
and an animal rights activist.

Garvie is president of international production at Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and oversees SPT’s global network of production companies outside the US, covering Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. The 24 wholly-owned or joint venture production companies within the business deliver both original and formatted content for local broadcasters in their markets, and create nearly 1,500 hours of entertainment around the world each year. He is also responsible for driving creative development within international production, steering the business to develop locally created properties into global formats and fostering co-developments across the group.
Garvie joined SPT in June 2012 and reports to Mike Hopkins, chairman of Sony Pictures Television. He joined SPT from All3MEDIA, where he was managing director, International Production with special responsibility for the company’s growth in the US. Previously, Garvie was managing director for content & production at BBC Worldwide, responsible for establishing the corporation’s global network of production companies and overseeing its international formats business. Prior to that role, he was head of entertainment group for the BBC, where his teams were behind shows like Strictly Come Dancing and Dragons’ Den. Garvie also held senior positions in UK broadcasting, including director of broadcasting for Granada. Garvie holds a First Class Honours degree and Honorary PhD from the University of Kent and a PhD in Economic History from the University of Sheffield.

As WE tv’s executive vice president of development & original programming, Gellert is responsible for developing and producing brand-defining original series’ that drive viewership, build buzz and support the network’s overall business and revenue goals, as well as finding new unscripted originals that explore personalities and relationships fueled by purpose and passion.

Gellert joined WE tv in 2012 and serves as the network’s executive in charge of production for all original series, working closely with outside production companies, creators and producers. Her vision and creativity are the fuel behind WE tv’s popular original programming slate, which are some of the most buzzed about shows in pop culture, including the Growing Up Hip Hop franchise, Braxton Family Values, Love After Lockup, Mama June: From Not to Hot, and the Marriage Boot Camp franchise.

Before joining WE tv, Gellert held various positions with ION Media Networks, RDF/Zodiak USA, truTV, Court TV, and VH1.

Gellert graduated from Northwestern University. She is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, and a founding member of the New York board of directors of Step Up Women’s Network, a non-profit to advance philanthropy and volunteerism among women in entertainment and media.

Green established Eleventh Hour Films in 2010. As chief executive she is responsible for overseeing the strategic and creative direction of the business and implementing the company’s long term growth plan to increase its global footprint.
Since starting the company, Green has executive produced New Blood, Foyle’s War, Vexed, and two seasons of atmospheric thriller Safe House. She is currently executive producing YA spy series Alex Rider for Sony.
Previously she set up & ran Greenlit Productions for 12 years where Foyle’s War was first generated alongside Collision and the feature film The Americanstarring George Clooney.
Alongside her work with Eleventh Hour Films, Green is also on the board of Chichester Theatre and Aldeburgh Cinema. She has been artistic director of the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival for 3 years, a weekend of screenings and debate with Documentary film makers.

Handel is an entertainment and technology lawyer at TroyGould and a contributing editor at The Hollywood Reporter, where he has written about 1,300 articles on the guilds and other legal and business issues. He is also an adjunct professor at USC and Southwestern law schools and a research fellow at Rutgers University. Prior to law school, Handel was a computer scientist and was involved in local politics for a decade. The author of several books on entertainment labor, Handel has been interviewed and quoted in the media about 1,100 times on entertainment and technology law and business topics. He has been profiled several times, and was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in California in 2008 in recognition of his blogging coverage of the WGA strike. Handel is a graduate of Harvard College (applied math and computer science magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School (cum laude), and is a member of the Television Academy.

Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers in the UK and is unique for working across so many genres. His many TV shows include Midsomer Murders, Collision, New Blood and the Bafta-award winning Foyle’s War. As a novelist, his Alex Rider books have sold over 20 million copies and he is the only modern writer to have been invited back to write two James Bond novels. His new novel,The Sentence is Death, continues the adventures of ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne and was released in November 2019.

Kaplan is the executive vice president of scripted for Keshet Studios, the LA-based studio which manages Keshet International’s (KI) development, production, packaging, promotion and sales of KI’s programming activity in the US. Kaplan manages the studio’s slate of scripted projects, which includes KI’s catalogue of more than 30 premium scripted formats as well as original developments for the US marketplace and beyond. Kaplan also manages the company’s first-look scripted programming deal with NBC Entertainment, which includes a co-production pact with NBC’s sibling studio, Universal Television.

As part of a first-look agreement with NBC, Keshet Studios co-produced the military drama The Brave with Universal Television for NBC, and currently has two pilot pick-ups, including Keshet’s romcom The Baker and The Beauty for ABC and a pilot adaptation for NBC called Lincoln based on The Bone Collector books. Keshet Studios is currently co-producing The Summer of 2014 (w/t) and Rise and Kill First with HBO. Its first feature film, The Sound of Silence, was picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide ahead of its World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Previously Kaplan was a partner at TBD Entertainment, the executive vice president of television at Brillstein Entertainment Partners (formerly known as Brillstein Grey Entertainment or “BEP”), and was the VP of drama development at Warner Bros. TV, where she developed and sold over 100 drama projects, 18 of which were picked up to series, including Chuck for NBC, Gossip Girl for CW, Men in Trees for ABC, Close to Home for CBS, and The O.C. for FOX.

Kaplan began her career in TV as an independent producer where she produced The Lyricist Lounge show for MTV.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Leavitt is the managing director of Tulip Media Ltd., a boutique financing and packaging firm dedicated to film, television and digital media which Leavitt formed in 1998. Prior thereto, Leavitt was a senior production executive whose responsibilities included serving as chairman of Alliance Entertainment Television and executive vice-president of NBC Studios. Leavitt most recently packaged and produced the nationally syndicated game show, “Monopoly Millionaires’ Club”, hosted by Billy Gardell. Earlier in his career, Leavitt was a practicing entertainment attorney, and was part of the initial launch teams of Showtime, Bravo and The Disney Channel. He also served as the chief film acquisition executive for CBS/Fox Video during the video explosion of the 1980’s. As a studio executive, he was responsible for supervising production of properties such as Saved by the Bell and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.  Tulip Media has pioneered numerous international co-productions and is an active member and media advisor to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA-LA). Leavitt also served as vice chair of IFTA, and was the president of the U.S. Television Academy. Leavitt currently serves as a litigation consultant in a number of high profile media lawsuits. He was recognized with the Tom Dowd Lifetime Achievement Award by the Florida Bar Association. Leavitt is an honors graduate of Kenyon College and received his law degree from New York University School of Law.

Lederman is executive vice president of global scripted development for Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Based in SPT’s Culver City headquarters, she facilitates creative and logistical partnerships between SPT’s US and international production teams to expand SPT’s slate of TV series in the US and around the world. Lederman works closely with SPT’s portfolio of international production companies to foster relationships and sales to US-based platforms and works in association with SPT’s US development teams in identifying and developing US projects for international buyers. In this capacity, she is focused on developing opportunities for cooperation between the studio’s domestic and international groups.

Lederman joins SPT from All3Media America, where she was EVP, scripted programming. In that role, she advised on scripted development slates for labels under the All3Media umbrella and developed the sales strategy on UK originals. She also served as executive producer on international co-productions, formats and original series, including Kaos (Netflix). Prior to that, she was at Lifetime Television for eight years, most recently serving as SVP, scripted programming and development and was responsible for developing UnREAL. Lederman got her start in the industry as vice president, production, for NBC Studios.

She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts and attended Sorbonne University in Paris.

Lewis Lee has been hard at work for over twenty years delivering quality content and information across many platforms. Through storytelling online, in books, in film and in television, she has sought to entertain, educate, inspire and encourage positive healthy lifestyle choices and outcomes.
Lewis Lee’s most recent television production She’s Gotta Have It Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix,  with Season 2 slated to return on May 24th. Her most recent film Monster, based on the Walter Dean Myers novel of the same name, will be in theatres Fall 2019.
For over a decade, as an independent producer, Lewis Lee has produced scripted and unscripted work, including such classics as Miracle’s Boys, a six-part television series, and the television film The Watsons Go To Birmingham, based on the Christopher Paul Curtis novel.
Lewis Lee is also a best selling author penning three children’s books which have sold over a million copies:
Please Baby Please, Please Puppy Please, and Giant Steps To Change The World
all with Simon & Schuster. She is also the co-author of the best selling novel, Gotham Diaries, published by Hyperion.
In 2009 Lewis Lee produced the documentary Crisis In The Crib exploring the issues of  infant mortality in the United States which led to the founding of her wellness brand, Movita.  Movita launched an organic multivitamin supplement in 2015 with Beauty and Prenatal supplements in Spring 2019.  All Movita products are certified organic by ICS.
Lewis Lee graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. and from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D. Lewis Lee has two adult children, and lives in New York City with her husband Spike Lee.

Lezcano represents a wide range of entertainment companies and sports leagues (international and domestic), writers, producers, directors, actors, comedians, and other on-camera talent across the entertainment industry. Additionally, Lezcano specializes in high-level entertainment executive employment agreements.
Lezcano began his career in entertainment as a legal and business affairs executive for the network television department of The Walt Disney Studios. With this background, Lezcano brings immense insight to crafting agreements that are structured for results, tailored towards client specifications, and positioned for timely execution. Thanks to a thoroughly collaborative approach to deal-making, Lezcano’s professional success lies in the creation and fostering of productive relationships that help his clients navigate an evolving and increasingly complex industry.
Fluent in Spanish and English, Lezcano is fortunate to work alongside some of the most talented and diverse lawyers in the industry, each with unique perspectives and areas of specialty. As a result, his clients benefit greatly from a company culture that shares its collective expertise and rich network of strong relationships across the sector.

Liberatore is executive vice president of television for Rideback, the film and television company founded by producer Dan Lin. Liberatore oversees all television production and development for the company, which has a broadcast deal at CBS Television Studios. Recently, Liberatore helped to develop, in partnership with MRC, the Rideback TV Incubator, a new writer residency program that financially and creatively supports TV drama writers from diverse backgrounds and helps them create their own original shows aimed at the cable and streaming space.

Prior to Rideback, Liberatore spent two years as vice president for Sony Pictures Television’s boutique TriStar label where she worked in development and current programming. At TriStar she worked on multiple pilots and series, including Hulu’s Shut Eye and Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt and The Last Tycoon. As a producer, Liberatore has developed shows for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, E!, FOX, NBC, ABC and CBS. Prior to her role as a studio executive, Liberatore worked at talent-based production companies, including Krysten Ritter’s Silent Machine Entertainment and Ryan Reynolds’ and Allan Loeb’s DarkFire TV. Her first job in television was at Film 44 where she produced the HBO docuseries On Freddie Roach about the world-class boxing trainer. Liberatore began her career in features at The Mark Gordon Company where she was based for six years.

Lyvers is the senior vice president, co-productions and development, CBS Studios International. Based in the Company’s EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam, she reports to Armando Nuñez, president and chief executive officer, CBS Studios International, and David Stapf, president, CBS Television Studios.

In this role, Lyvers develops new programming opportunities for CBS Television Studios in both the U.S. and the international market. She acquires new formats, identifies co-production opportunities and mines the Studios’ deep library as she looks to develop original series with CBS’ broadcast and streaming partners around the world. As part of this process, Lyvers works with the Studio’s extensive roster of writers and producers to create new content for international platforms.
 
Most recently, Lyvers was Senior Vice President, Cable/Digital, CBS Television Studios, developing programming for basic, pay cable and premium streaming services. She joined the company as Senior Vice President, Drama Development in 2014, helping develop series such as MacGyver, Bull and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
 
Prior to CBS Television Studios, Lyvers was a producer at Management 360, establishing their television division and building the company’s drama and comedy slate, including the upcoming AMC series “The Terror.” She also developed projects with their prolific roster of writer, director and actor clients across broadcast, cable and digital platforms.

Previously, Lyvers served as vice president, development and production at Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Productions.  For more than a decade, she helped shepherd  Tribeca’s feature film and television slate, including “About a Boy,” “Meet the Fockers,” “The Good Shepherd,” “Little Fockers,” “Being Flynn” and “NYC 22.”  Lyvers was involved in the creation of the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute with De Niro and Rosenthal, and she remains active with both organizations. She attended New York University.

Madden is AMC Networks’ president of programming, entertainment networks, overseeing all scripted and non-fiction content development for AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC, Sundance TV, and AMC Studios, brands that deliver some of the most popular and culturally relevant shows on television as well as an expanding studio operation.
 
An accomplished and highly regarded programming executive with a proven record of success, Madden joined AMC Networks in 2017 after nearly two decades at Fox, where he was president of entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company, responsible for all programming and development, including series such as “Empire,” “911,” “Brooklyn 99,” “Masterchef Junior” and “Grease Live.” Prior to that, Madden was president of Fox Television Studios, which developed and produced programming for a variety of broadcast and cable networks in the U.S. and internationally. Series produced by FTVS during Madden’s tenure at the studio included “The Shield” and “The Americans” for FX, “The Killing,” for AMC and later Netflix, “White Collar,” “Graceland” and “Burn Notice” for USA, and many others.
 
At AMC Networks, Madden has most recently overseen a new slate of upcoming programming for AMC that includes the upcoming “Dispatches from Elsewhere,” from actor and writer Jason Segel and producer Scott Rudin, and “NOS4A2,” a supernatural horror series based on the Joe Hill novel of the same name. Current programming on AMC includes “The Walking Dead,” “Fear The Walking Dead,” “Better Call Saul,” “Preacher,” “The Terror,” Lodge 49,” and “Into the Badlands.” At BBC America, Madden oversees programming that includes the critically acclaimed “Killing Eve,” “Doctor Who,” “Planet Earth II”,” “Blue Planet II” and “Dynasties,” and acclaimed drama “Luther.” IFC is home to offbeat comedies such as “Documentary Now!,” created by Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Fred Armisen, “Brockmire,” starring Hank Azaria and the upcoming “Sherman’s Showcase,” an original musical variety sketch from “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” comedy duo Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle and executive produced by John Legend. At SundanceTV, Madden oversees a lineup of high-caliber dramas and documentary programming including their newest series “State of The Union,” a ten-part short form comedy series written by Nick Hornby (“Brooklyn,” “An Education”) and starring Rosamund Pike (“Gone Girl,” “Hostiles”) and Chris O’Dowd (“Bridesmaids,” “Get Shorty”). Also central to his role at AMC Networks is Madden’s oversight of programming for the company’s expanding AMC Studios business, which allows the company to own and control more of the content it brings to fans on its national networks and emerging platforms. AMC Studios produces “The Walking Dead,” the highest-rated series in cable history, and a wide variety of popular and acclaimed originals including “Fear the Walking Dead,” “The Terror,” “Into the Badlands,” “Lodge 49” and others. The studio has also produced the Peabody Award-winning “Rectify,” and “Hap and Leonard,” as well as unscripted series “Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders” and “The Jonestown Massacre” for SundanceTV.
 
Madden received a Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard University and a Master’s Degree from the University of California Los Angeles.

Miller is the chairman of the entertainment department at the national law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP.
He is a trusted advisor and deal-maker for many of America’s hottest stars — like Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, Jonathan Cain (from the Rock band “Journey), Justin Prentice, Daymond John, Cheo Hodari Coker (“Luke Cage” creator), Nene Leakes, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Bishop TD Jakes, to name a few.
For over two decades, Miller has worked with individual, production and institutional clients to leverage their careers and high brand equity into multiple streams of income. He is author of the NAACP Image Award nominated book, “The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame”.
He has been recognized as one of the top 40 dealmakers in Variety magazine’s Dealmakers Impact Report for seven consecutive years and named in The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 100 Power Lawyers List for four consecutive years. He was listed in Savoy magazine’s Most Influential Black Lawyers list, the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s list of top entertainment lawyers in California, and in Chambers USA 2019. In 2016, he was named Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Co-founded by Montefiore in 2013, New Metric Media, is an award-winning production company behind the hit Crave /Hulu original comedy Letterkenny and the Netflix/CityTV premium drama series Bad Blood. Recently named winner of the Banff World Media Festival’s 2018 Innovative Producer Award, the company is also recognised as a leader in brand marketing for its success with Letterkenny and Bad Blood’s off-screen extensions, including beers and spirits, collectible merchandise, a branded escape room activation with a national immersive entertainment franchise featuring Bad Blood, as well as Letterkenny Live!, a North American theatre tour with the stars of the series.  
Montefiore’s previous credits include the Whistler Film Fest and Toronto Film Festival Film Circuit Audience Choice winning feature film, Cas & Dylan, starring Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland’s Opus) and Emmy Award winner Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and directed by Jason Priestley (90210). Montefiore was named The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation Under 34 (’14).

Morayniss is an experienced C-Suite entertainment and media executive, media entrepreneur and award- winning executive producer with 30 years of experience in the global film, television and digital industries. He has been credited as an executive producer on 80 television productions, including approximately 30 made-for- television movies and 50 series and mini-series. Most recently Morayniss was the CEO of eOne’s television group where he oversaw all aspects of eOne’s television business including all development, financing, production and monetization on a worldwide basis of all content created and acquired by the television group. He then moved on to become co-president of film, television and digital at eOne before then setting up JDM Media through which he is involved in all aspects of media and entertainment as a consultant and investor, including film, television, digital, music and live theatre. Morayniss is a board member of the Canadian Film Centre, International Academy of Television and Hollywood Radio & Television Society.

Norton is an award-winning author, writer-producer, and the founder of Awesome, a UK based production and publishing company backed by Kew Media Group and Tricycle Media.
Norton’s debut novel, ‘MetaWars: Fight For The Future’ (Hachette), is a high-tech thriller about the fight for the internet that has spurred three sequels. Norton also wrote the coming-of-age sci-fi comedy ‘Alienated: Grounded At Groom Lake’ and co-wrote the young adult thriller ‘Keeping the Beat.’ His next novel is ‘Looking Glass’, a Victorian-era revenge thriller.
For television, Awesome partners with other production companies and is currently developing ‘Expat’ based on Norton’s original script with Monumental Television, ‘Looking Glass’ with Ruby Rock Pictures, and ‘Knights of Panterra’ with OmniFilm and The Jim Henson Company based on Jeff’s new novel, ‘Dino Knights.’
Previously, Norton was senior vice president of Chorion Ltd., which managed the literary estates of Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, and where he acquired and developed new intellectual property, including the ‘The Octonauts.’ He also developed and produced the award-winning ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ movie based on the best-selling books, and served as a marketing executive at Procter & Gamble. Norton studied Film Studies at Queen’s University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

O’Brien executive produces NOS4A2, based on the novel by Joe Hill, which she created for television. Previously, she’s written for Fear the Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels, Big Love and Flesh and Bone, which was nominated for a Writer’s Guild Award. O’Brien has an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Oliver is chairman of boutique strategy advisory company Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates (O&O). He was the BBC’s first head of strategy and its youngest ever member of senior management. After leaving the BBC in 1995, he set up O&O, which advises major companies, investors, regulators, sports bodies and governments across the global media, entertainment and sports sectors.
Clients past and present include the English Premier League, UEFA, Liberty Global, Sky, BT, Google, Spotify, Discovery, NBCUniversal, Creative Artists Agency, the Music Publishers Association, KKR, Providence, CVC, BeIN, RTL, ProsiebenSat.1, AMC Networks, Endemol Shine Group, Disney, Fox.
Oliver has taken a leading role in introducing innovative new approaches and business models to a number of sectors – sports rights exploitation, multichannel TV, web news, independent TV production, sports ownership, high end scripted content funding, addressable advertising, music streaming, SVoD etc.
Before joining the BBC, Oliver worked as a regulatory and antitrust economist at NERA and then PwC. He has a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and lives in Somerset and London in the UK.

Howard Owens is Founder and Co-CEO of Propagate Content, an independent premium content production company.

From November 2011, to May 2014, Owens served as president of National Geographic Channels, where he oversaw all aspects of corporate strategy for the National Geographic suite of channels. During his tenure, Owens was responsible for franchise unscripted series including “Wicked Tuna,” “Brain Games” and “Ultimate Survival Alaska” – while also introducing original scripted programming in “Killing Lincoln,” the Emmy-nominated “Killing Kennedy,” and “Killing Jesus.”

Prior to NGC, Owens was the co-founding partner of Reveille LLC. Directly overseeing a multitude of divisions, including Reality and Scripted, Digital and Branding, Legal and Finance, and Production, Owens guided the development and production of ground-breaking series such as “Date My Mom” (MTV), “Parental Control” (MTV), “30 Days” (FX), “The Biggest Loser” (NBC), “Master Chef” (FOX), “American Gladiators” (NBC), and “Nashville Star” (USA, NBC), among others.

Before Reveille, Owens cut his teeth as an agent in the corporate consulting and television packaging divisions at William Morris Agency. Owens represented television producers and top brands such as Maxim, InStyle, eBay and Miramax Films.

Plestis knows reality programming. He is an innovator and visionary who has been at the forefront of the category since its inception. He is the brains behind the #1 New Show in America, The Masked Singer for Fox, which had the highest rated unscripted launch in 8 years and is the highest rated new show, regardless of genre. In addition, it is the #1 show on Fox and the network’s most streamed unscripted show ever. 
 
As the former head of Reality at NBC, he helped create and launch hits such as America’s Got Talent; Deal or No Deal; The Biggest Loser; The Apprentice; The Singing Bee; 1 vs 100; Last Comic Standing; Nashville Star; The Chopping Block with Marco Pierre White; Dog Eat Dog; Fear Factor; The Contender; Grease, You’re The One That I Want; Thank God You’re Here; Three Wishes; and Treasure Hunters.  He took chances on controversial and socially important shows such as Baby Borrowers and Who Do You Think You Are?, just to name a few. In addition, he was in charge of the perennially popular Golden Globe Awards.
 
As head of Smart Dog Media, Plestis was the executive producer of the NBC singing game show The Winner Is, hosted by Nick Lachey, in partnership with Talpa Media, producers of The Voice for NBC. He was also the executive producer of more than 70 episodes of the NBC hit game show Minute to Win It, hosted by Guy Fieri, which was the winner of the International FRAPA Award for Best Studio-Based Game Show. In addition, Plestis executive-produced NBC’s Who’s Still Standing? a game show that featured contestants falling through trap doors after answering trivia questions incorrectly. In 2013, Smart Dog Media launched Robot Combat League for the Syfy Channel, the world’s first giant fighting robot competition series. Plestis also served as the executive producer of Syfy’s diabolical game show Exit, based on a popular Japanese format. Continuing his relationship with Syfy, he brought them Opposite Worlds, the English-language version of the popular Chilean format, Mundos Opuestos. Plestis has also worked extensively with The Food Network, producing three series in the last few years. Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell recently wrapped its third season on the network. The series initially launched as Chef Hunter before being rebranded as a vehicle for the very popular TV chef, Anne Burrell. In addition, he created and produced Extreme Chef, which took seven of America’s most fearless chefs out of their kitchens and dropped them into extreme locations. Additionally, Plestis was the executive producer on two half-hour syndicated series for Tribune: Unsealed: Alien Files and Unsealed: Conspiracy Files, which are currently available on Prime Video. Plestis will be executive producing Cash Pad for CNBC this year.  

An industry insider, with experience as a studio executive, agent, manager and TV consultant, Quinn currently develops and drives compelling strategic partnerships for U.S. and international companies that open doors to profitable new revenue streams in Hollywood. Her company, Quinn Media Management, specializes in routes to market, acquisitions, programming and business development.
Quinn is an international format expert and represents the creators of international television series. She led the Big Mountain Productions team, setting up “Geneaology Roadshow” on PBS. She was also instrumental in Wild Rover Productions’ summer run of “Take the Money and Run” on ABC.
Prior to forming Quinn Media Management (www.patquinnmedia.com), Quinn’s extensive industry experience in Hollywood included senior positions at ICM, Metropolitan Talent Agency, Paradigm Agency and Warner Bros. Television.
Quinn has deep industry experience in television. As vice president of comedy series at Warner Bros. Television, she was the production executive for 38 pilot script writers developing series. For the 8 scripts that were picked up by networks to go in to pilot production, Quinn supervised the rewrites, notes, director and cast selection, table reads, production and editing at the studio.
Additionally, praised by the stakeholders, Quinn made significant contributions to the early financing, blue-printing of the world-famous Sundance Film Festival – the team raised over $3 million from new sources including $1.5 million from the National Endowment for the Arts for the Sundance Film Institute and the naming of Sundance Film Festival (previously known as the U.S. Film Festival). Additionally, Quinn’s work has impacted the strategy, and continued development of the powerful, prominent industry organization called Women In Film. Once mainly a social network, WIF was transitioned into an advocacy powerhouse, to the point of impacting national policy.
Presently, Quinn’s main focus is her Los Angeles-based media consultancy, Quinn Media Management—its client list includes: the Numbers (movie financial analysts), the Canadian Media Producers Association, Enterprise Ireland, Quebecomm, Aetios Productions, Screenleaders EU, TRC, Northern Ireland Screen, TV2 (Norway), TV3 (Ireland) and Grace Blue (executive search).
Quinn is also known for her teaching skills. She is an adjunct professor in film and television producing at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts/Chapman University and teaches television economics at Carnegie Mellon’s MEIM program. She serves on the Board of Directors of Women in Film, which promotes community, advocacy and entrepreneurship.

Native New Yorker Resnik holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in Motion Picture Producing from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts’ Peter Stark Producing Program. Following a successful feature writing career, she has been writing and producing television for over a decade now, including stints on Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Pushing Daisies, Mistresses, Castle, Jane the Virgin, Shooter, Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick, and Marvel’s Daredevil. 

Most recently she co-created and showruns Home Before Dark, a Paramount series for Apple inspired by real-life 12-year-old crime reporter Hilde Lysiak. The project is about truth and the power of young women, making it her proudest career achievement.

Between projects, Resnik teaches the next generation of writers in the Peter Stark Producing Program and the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television, both at USC, and the Sundance labs. In her spare time, she runs marathons and is a leader in her progressive Jewish community, Ikar. Resnik draws her motivation to keep moving from the young women in her own life, especially her daughter, Orly.

Emmy -nominated, BAFTA award-winning director and showrunner Skogland is CEO of Mad Rabbit, a Red Arrow Studios company, which launched in 2016. As CEO, Skogland is committed to producing high-end one-hour dramas for the international market while she continues her award-winning work as director of hit series including The Handmaid’s Tale, the first two episodes of AMC’s NOS4A2 starring Zachary Quinto, and the pilot of Starz’s The Rook. Skogland also serves as pilot block director and an executive producer of Showtime’s upcoming limited series The Loudest Voice in the Room starring Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes.
Skogland has become one of the world’s most prolific female directors of one-hour dramas and feature films. She was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Ten Directors to Watch” for her auteur debut, won a prestigious BAFTA award for directing The Handmaid’s Tale season one finale, nominated for a 2018 Emmy® award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for The Handmaid’s Tale season two and most recently was featured in Variety’s 2018 Women’s Impact Report.

Springborn is vice president of content development at Hulu. Since joining the Hulu team in 2014, Springborn has played an integral role in developing and greenlighting straight-to-series orders for Hulu’s acclaimed and award-winning slate of originals, including the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, as well as The Looming Tower, Future Man and Castle Rock. Upcoming Hulu Originals her and her team most recently ushered in to Hulu include Catch-22 from George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s SmokeHouse Pictures; as well as Little Fires Everywhere, the highly-anticipated limited series from Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller.

Prior to joining Hulu, Springborn was head of Television for Craig Zadan and Neil Meron’s Storyline Entertainment, who have deals with Universal TV, NBC International and Sony Pictures TV. At Storyline, Springborn developed and produced the MTV series Happyland, which premieres this fall. Prior to Storyline, Springborn was SVP for Caryn Mandabach Productions (Peaky Blinders) where she oversaw the development of genre and book-based series for the international marketplace. She previously was the EVP of TV and film production and development at Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures (The Walking Dead). Springborn started her executive career in features, serving as the manager of development at Pixar where she worked on Ratatouille and Finding Nemo.

Prior to Pixar, Springborn was a journalist and worked at CNN, Texas Monthly and a magazine all about UNIX computing.

Sriraman is president for BritBox, a joint venture between BBC Studios, the subsidiary arm of BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster. In this role, Sriraman is responsible for the overall strategy and operation of BritBox, with a focus on bringing the best British content to the service through acquisitions, licensing, co-productions, and key partnerships, with an emphasis on reach, engagement, and retention.
Earlier, Sriraman served as executive vice president of franchise and digital enterprises at BBC Worldwide North America (now BBC Studios Americas), where she expanded brand platforms, maximized distribution outlets, developed new product and grew the home entertainment and licensing businesses to record breaking heights; adding a new distribution line-up of theatrical events for the key BBC brands including Doctor Who and BBC Earth.
Prior to joining BBC Worldwide North America, Sriraman was president and chief executive officer for Palisades Tartan US and UK where, she spearheaded the releasing of independent and arthouse films, relaunched the Tartan brand, and increased sales against a declining market. Sriraman was named among Home Media Magazine’s 40 Under 40 executives and held positions at Warner Home Video and Universal Home Entertainment. Sriraman was also the senior vice president of theatrical marketing at Universal Music and Video’s filmed entertainment arm, Vivendi Entertainment. She is a member of the British American Business Association and is delighted to serve on the Advisory Board of the Bentonville Film Festival.

Stein has worked in the entertainment industry for over 25 years in all phases of the business, including feature film, television development, and production. Stein’s specialty over the last 15 years has been developing and packaging scripted series for the global market, including co-productions, pre- sales and original production in local markets. Stein is one of only a handful of executives who is able to navigate the us, uk, canadian and european markets both creatively and commercially. Stein joined Kew Media as the executive vice president of global scripted series where she’s responsible for building a high end scripted slate as well as working with producers under the kew banner, identifying distribution targets and establishing strategic partnerships.

For the previous five years, Stein was the executive vice president of global productions for Entertainment One Television where she was responsible for expanding the company both corporately and commercially in the global space, forging strategic alliances with global producers as well as packaging and overseeing production for international co-productions. Stein was the executive behind many of eOne’s successful co-productions including Ransom, Cardinal, Gap Year, Welcome to Sweden, and the book of Negroes. Prior to eone, Stein ran a global management and packaging division for 3 Arts Management where she continued to work closely with producers to develop scripted content for global channels. In 2006 Stein was hired as the CEO of Alchemy Television, a uk based production and distribution company that exploded onto the television landscape producing a premium slate of global television properties including Coco Chanel, Ben Hur, The Company, Diamonds, Burn Up and distributing the cbs/ctv hit series Flashpoint. Prior to Alchemy, Stein ran the longform packaging department at ICM. Stein resides in los angeles but spends a large part of each year working in Europe.

As the managing director of “yes Studios” Stern oversees sales, distribution and development of premium content for international platforms.

Among “yes Studios'” recent successes is the sale of the internationally acclaimed series “Fauda” to global streaming platform – Netflix and local adaptions of the international phenomena in the UK (Blueprint Films) Russia, France and India; The adaptation of the Israeli comedy “The Good Cop” starring Tony Danza and Josh Groban – on Netflix; “68 Whiskey” an adaptation of hugely popular series “Ta’agad” (aka “Charlie Golf One”) to the Paramount Network (Imagine Entertainment) “On the Spectrum” the Series Mania 2018 grand Prix winner (True Jack Productions/Universal TV) and the sale of the award winning series “Your Honor” to Showtime Networks for a North American based adaptation (King Size Productions/Paper Plane). In addition, versions of “Your Honor” are currently in production in India and Germany and in development in France, Italy and Russia.

“yes Studios” also develops original IP – with projects currently in development at North American and European outlets and also finances and produces high profile docs for the international market.

Stern is an international television veteran, having managed all aspects of content acquisitions, programming, scheduling, channel creation, digital content management and branding across platforms in her previous role at Israel’s “yesTV” – a multichannel television provider.

Tramble Spellman is creator/showrunner of the forthcoming Apple drama series, Truth Be Told, starring Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul and Lizzy Caplan, based on the novel by Kathleen Barber. Tramble Spellman was also an executive producer on Amazon’s A Brief History Of Seven Killings based on the National Book Award winning novel by Marlon James. Previous to that she spent three seasons on the critically-acclaimed CBS drama The Good Wife, as well as FX’s Justified. Tramble Spellman began her career as a journalist, and is the author of the novels The Dying Ground and The Last King published by Random House/Ballantine.

Vesper is the EVP and creative director, global drama at Fremantle. Based in London, he reports to Fremantle’s director of global drama, Sarah Doole. In his role Vesper works closely with Fremantle’s production companies as a development partner with a focus on bolstering the international scripted development slate. He also cultivates his own projects within the company.  The positon provides Vesper with a platform to connect leading international writers, producers, directors and actors with Fremantle’s production teams to develop scripted programming of the highest calibre.

Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian, actor and director. He can currently be seen in the new hit Hulu show “Ramy” which premiered on Friday, April 19, 2019.  He created, produced and stars in the show which is inspired by his own experiences.  “Ramy” centers around a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim on a spiritual journey in his politically divided New Jersey neighborhood. 
 
Youssef recently filmed his first one-hour comedy special at the Chicago Cultural Center. The special is produced by A24 and Jerrod Carmichael and is set to premiere on HBO on Saturday, June 29, 2019.  
 
Youssef is most commonly known for playing the recurring roles of Kevin on “See Dad Run” (2012-2014) and Samar Swailem on “Mr. Robot” (2017). Youssef’s other television credits include appearances on “Money From Strangers”, “TeenNick Halo Awards”, Comedy Central’s “Colossal Clusterfest”, “Travel Ban” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as himself. Youssef also starred in “Living The Dream”, “On the Loose”, and “Above Average Presents”, “One Crazy Cruise”, “Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street”, “Why Him?” and “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Gar on Foot”.   
 
Currently, Youssef is voicing the character Omar in the animated feature “Hump”. Youssef went to Rutgers University in New Jersey and is currently based in New Jersey.