Pitch Perfect:
How to Develop and Sell Unscripted Series
Speaker Bios
Executive Producer / Showrunner
An Emmy-nominated Executive Producer / Showrunner, Mary has also developed over 45 original series that have sold to 25+ buyers including Vice, Hulu, Tastemade, Adult Swim, PBS, A&E, VH1, Food, History, Discovery, Travel, HGTV, TLC, ABC Family, H2, Animal Planet, BBC, NESN, and Fremantle. Mary has been in development at Vice World News, Double Elvis Productions, Punched in the Head Productions, America’s Test Kitchen, Time Inc., WGBH, Powderhouse Productions and Scout Productions.
Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer, WORLD Channel
Chris Hastings is the Editor-in-Chief for WORLD, based at GBH in Boston. At GBH, Hastings has worked with the children’s television program ZOOM and the GBH Lab, an innovative incubator for up-and-coming filmmakers. Hastings joined WORLD Channel in 2011, where he co-created the award-winning documentary series America ReFramed; Local, USA; and Doc World, and provided editorial oversight to the other original series on WORLD. Series in Hastings’ portfolio has won many honors, including a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, and News and Documentary Emmy Award. In 2016, Hastings became a Rockwood JustFilms Fellow and was awarded GBH’s Margaret and Hans Rey Curious George in-house producer fellowship. worldchannel.org
Content Strategist
Judy Levenson is a creative strategist and innovator who has been working in the Entertainment Industry for over 20 years. While working in programming, sales and business development, Judy has used her skills as both a lawyer and a creative executive to generate millions in revenue and ratings for a multitude of global companies. judylevensonconsulting.com
Owner / Executive Producer, Milkman Content
Seanbaker Carter has been a stalwart of the New England unscripted TV scene for over two decades. Throughout his expansive career that included developing the legendary "Queer Eye" with Scout Productions, Seanbaker has produced over 500 episodes of television across almost every major cable network, including A&E, VH1, Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, History, Bravo, ABC, CBS, Dreamworks, Disney, and Facebook Watch. He believes in one thing above all else: moments matter. milkmancontent.com
COO and Creative Director, Another Age Productions
The COO and Creative Director of Another Age Productions, Andrew Eldridge is an Emmy® Award-winning director and storyteller with 17+ years professional experience spanning the television, film, and commercial industry. Most recently Andrew developed and directed three unscripted television shows for Hearst Television’s Very Local platform – Blind Kitchen, The Spark, and Local Love. anotherageproductions.com