I make television.
Among other things.
Creator and producer of original unscripted television formats.
Five series sold, including two direct-to-series orders.
Television Creator. Producer. Development Executive.↓
Selected television projects
Selected Original Creations
01 / TELEVISION
VH1WALK OF
SHAME
SHUTTLE
01 WALK OF SHAME SHUTTLE
VH1 | 13-Episode Direct-to-Series Order
We gave people walking home from a one-night stand a free ride. All they had to do was tell us their story.
More about the project +
The project received four competing offers before selling to VH1.
ESQUIRE NETWORKART
HOSTAGE
02 ART HOSTAGE
Esquire Network | Sold
Inside the world of stolen art, where an intermediary connects the criminal underworld and authorities to recover stolen masterpieces.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNELHARDCORE
HOBBIES
03 HARDCORE HOBBIES
National Geographic Channel | Six-Episode Order
When collecting goes from passion to obsession, it's time for an intervention.
Television Creator. Producer. Development Executive.
Apparently, I'm not
out of ideas yet.
My career has taken me from production at Telepictures to development at Game Show Network (GSN), where I served as Director of Development, and later to JLTV, where I oversaw scheduling and acquisitions while developing and packaging original programming.
I'm still creating, developing, and pitching original television formats.
Among other things
There's more
to the story.
My daughter calls me Barbie. Apparently, I've done it all — from flying planes and even jumping out of them to building houses, collecting things I probably didn't need, and occasionally finding myself in situations that made for pretty good stories.
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BEYOND TELEVISION / REAL ESTATE Commercial and residential real estate ownership and management in the Chicago and Los Angeles markets.
Before moving into real estate ownership and management, I was a custom home builder in Chicago.