EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
CANADA’S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS THE WORLD (Crave / WOW Presents Plus – 6 x 1 hr)
Competition Reality Series
- Stunt season of “All Stars” competing for the global title – roving “VS” series hosted by Canada
- Supervising all aspects of prep, location shooting, post and delivery to network. Helping to hire the team with a keen eye to Diversity and Inclusion, managed D & I training for the entire crew, managed contract negotiations and handled all network and stakeholder relationships.
CANADA’S DRAG RACE (Crave / WOW Presents Plus – 9 x 1 hr)
Competition Reality Series
- Canadian franchise of the record-breaking, iconic series RuPaul’s Drag Race. The top-rated streaming series in the country.
- Supervising all aspects of prep, location shooting, post and delivery to network. Helping to hire the team with a keen eye to Diversity and Inclusion, managed D & I training for the entire crew, managed contract negotiations and handled all network and stakeholder relationships.
SHOWRUNNER, SUPERVISING PRODUCER
(Selected Credits: 2004 – present)
SHINE TRUE (Fuse / OutTV – 8 x 30)
Showrunner/ Director // Primetime Documentary Series
- A documentary series celebrating the trans and gender non-conforming community by helping young people overcome dysphoria and anxiety, getting them to a place where they can freely and finally present the way they feel. With the support of musician, trans activist and life coach Lucas Silveira and photographer and non-binary fashion model Richie Shazam, each participant prepares for a life-event with the goal of finally “showing up” as themselves. SHINE TRUE is a premium documentary series that has the power to open minds and make real change through love and understanding.
IN THE MAKING (Season 2 – CBC – 8 x 30)
Co-Executive Producer/ Showrunner // Primetime Documentary Series
- Artists profiled: Jeremy Dutcher, Rebecca Belmore, Beverly Glenn Copeland, Ken Lum, Walter Scott, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Christopher House and Deanna Bowen
The series gives viewers rare access to artists, intimate creative spaces and exhilarating moments of realization. Directed by some of Canada’s most innovative voices in documentary film.
IN THE MAKING (Season 1 – CBC – 8 x 30)
Co-Executive Producer/ Showrunner // Primetime Documentary Series
- Artists profiled: Crystal Pite, Lido Pimienta, Adrian Stimson, Chilly Gonzales, Divya Mehra, Dana Michel, Shelley Niro and Curtis Talwst Santiago
ENTERTAINMENT ONE (eOne) TELEVISION, NYC
Producer – Unscripted
• eOne is a 360 degree development/production/distribution giant with offices across North America.
100 & COUNTING: SECRETS TO A LONG LIFE (CBC DOCS – 10 min film)
Executive Producer / Documentary Short Film
• The project has become a viral digital sensation. Currently at over 27 MILLION VIEWS and watched in dozens of countries across the world – a monster digital hit for the network.
• Ashraf is 100. Mohammed is 110. Astonishingly, they have been married for 80 years. In this hyper-accelerated era of interconnectivity where love is a “right swipe” away, we get a wry and hilarious look at a couple of centenarians with opinions, advice and attitude to spare!
YOURS, MINE OR OURS (Bravo/ NBC Universal – 10 x 30)
Supervising Producer // Factual: Real Estate and Design
• Starring Bravo celebrity real estate agent Reza Farahan (Shahs of Sunset) and designer Taylor Spellman, the hosts help successful couples in Los Angeles and Atlanta, each with their own places, decide to whether to stay in their own homes and renovate or to combine forces and move somewhere fabulous.
SUGAR SHOWDOWN (Cooking Channel/ Food Network Canada – 14 x 30)
Showrunner // Reality: Competitive Food
• (Shooting 2015) This spin-off of the hit show Donut Showdown will feature three dessert makers facing
celebrity judges and tests of will in the fight to win $10,000.
DONUT SHOWDOWN (Cooking Channel/ Food Network Canada – 40 x 30)
Showrunner // Reality: Competitive Food
• Three donut-makers face off against each other in a timed challenge and three celebrity chefs decide who wins the showdown and $10, 000.
RESTAURANT MAKEOVER (Food Network/ HGTV/ Fine Living + 16 countries – 52 x 60)
Showrunner – Season 4 & 5 // Reality: Food & Reno
• A chef and designer team up to overhaul an ailing restaurant in a week with a limited budget.
FASHION FILE: HOST HUNT (CBC – 10 x 30)
Producer, Director// Reality: Competition
• Ten hopefuls vying for the host job on the most watched fashion program on the planet.
MARRIAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (HGTV – 13 x 30)
Supervising Producer – Season 1 // Reality: Lifestyle
• Newlyweds Derek and Nessa buy a new home and transform it one room at a time.
SERIES DIRECTOR/ WRITER
(Selected Credits: 2004 – present)
LOST CAR RESCUE (HISTORY CHANNEL) – Director
History-based Documentary Series
- An ambitious team of classic car hunters scour deeper into Canada’s Northern wilderness than any car hunter has gone before; their mission is to recover rare vehicles fabled to be hiding in the bush, before the cars are lost forever to history.
BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW (IFC/CBC) – Season 5 – Story Editor, Contributing Writer
Sketch Comedy Series
- Baroness Von Sketchcelebrates the absurd, mines the embarrassing and satirizes our daily lives. The all-female, single-camera comedy series takes a fresh look at our navel-gazing, contemporary culture.
MISTER MORT (VICELAND – Pilot)
Documentary Series
• Celebrated street-style photographer Mister Mort is an anthropologist of unintentionally fresh looks. He meets with icons and the everyman to celebrate style where it’s least expected.
BOLLYWOOD STAR (Omni Network/ CITY-TV – Season 1, 4 x 60 / Season 2, 6 x 30)
Docu-Reality: Competition
• 10 hopefuls compete in singing, dancing and acting challenges and the top six travel to India in the hopes of winning the competing and starring in a Bollywood film.
RECIPE TO RICHES (CBC – Season 3, 6 x 60)
Reality: Food Competition
• Canada’s best home cooks compete to win their category and Canada votes to select the ultimate winner of $250,000.
BIRTH OF A CAR (Discovery Network – 2 x 60)
Documentary
• From design centers in Frankfurt to test tracks in the Mojave desert and the Grand Prix, this series tracks the DNA of a car from inception to market.
SUGARSTARS (Food Network Canada – 14 x 30)
Docu-soap
• The trials and tribulations of Ellie, Caspar and Yolanda of Petite and Sweet as they manage demanding clients in the high-stakes world of event management and sweet table designs.
NATURAL BORN DEALERS (Discovery Channel/ Planet Green/ ITV – 6 x 60)
Docu-soap
• A father and son team from Rockland, Maine run their business Antique and Unique, and do some hardcore wheeling-and-dealing in the world of mid-century modern antiques.
COME DINE WITH ME CANADA (W Network – 120 x 30)
Reality: Competition
• Based on the iconic British series, five competitors each host a dinner party over five nights and rate
each other’s food and decor. Add a little booze and things DO get ugly.
BIG VOICE (W Network – 13 x 30)
Documentary
• Singing coach to the stars, Elaine Overholt, helps average women find their voices through intensive training and perform a final concert to live their previously-dashed dream.
RENOVATE MY WARDROBE (Life Network – 26 x 30)
Lifestyle: Makeover
• Women with wardrobe woes get rescued – while Glen builds them a new closet system, Peter takes their entire wardrobe out of the house and overhauls it.
FEATURE FILM – PRODUCER
21 DAYS TO NAWROZ (2009)
Documentary Feature Film
(Producer/ Director)
An award-winning documentary feature film that explores the lives of three very different Kurdish women in the North of Iraq – a student, a lawyer and a survivor of Saddam Hussein’s chemical bombing – as they reckon with the past and look toward the future.
YOUR BEAUTIFUL CUL DE SAC HOME (2007)
Scripted Feature Film
(Producer)
A young lawyer sabotages his career, moves home and starts a ‘green’ lawn care service to save his integrity. Frustrated by suburban values, he resorts to extortion and corrupts himself more deeply than the law ever could before finding his way.
DEVELOPMENT & DISTRIBUTION
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT/ PRODUCER
• Hired on a freelance basis to conceive of and created sizzles/ pilots for various companies clients include: Temple Street Productions, Entertainment One, InMotion Productions, First Generation Films, Architect Films, Makan Media, Good Earth Productions.
PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Tricon Films & Television
• Developed, wrote, pitched, shot and edited all the in-house sizzles and pilots.
DISTRIBUTION MANAGER
Breakthrough Films & Television
• Handled all international market activities including MIPCOM, NATPE, MIP-TV and Banff.