Jana Burbach was born in 1985 in Munich and raised in Bonn, Lon­don, and Ber­lin. In 2007, she com­pleted a BA in Clas­sics and Eng­lish at the Uni­ver­sity of Oxford and in 2011 an MA in Expan­ded Theatre at the Bern Uni­ver­sity of the Arts. In theatre, she has worked as an assist­ant dir­ect­or, dir­ect­or, …

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Ben has just fin­ished writ­ing and exec­ut­ive pro­du­cing Young Wal­lander, the show he cre­ated for Yel­low­bird and Net­flix about the form­at­ive exper­i­ences of the icon­ic detect­ive Kurt Wal­lander. Before that, Ben wrote and exec­ut­ive pro­duced Dev­ils, star­ring Patrick Demp­sey for Lux Vide and Sky Italia, a con­spir­acy thrill­er set in the world of high fin­ance. …

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Sarah is a Seni­or Devel­op­ment Pro­du­cer at BBC Stu­di­os focused on new com­edy drama con­tent. Pri­or to the BBC, she was Devel­op­ment Exec­ut­ive at Kudos Film & Tele­vi­sion and worked on a mix­ture of drama and com­edy includ­ing Two Weeks To Live and You for Sky. Sarah pre­vi­ously worked as Script Edit­or on the first …

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Since 1990, Nic­ola Lusuardi has been work­ing as a play­wright and screen­writer. He has been script con­sult­ant, super­visor and cre­at­ive pro­du­cer for sev­er­al Itali­an and European broad­casters and pro­duc­tion com­pan­ies. Since 2013 to 2019 he con­sul­ted the ori­gin­al scrip­ted con­tents pro­duced by Sky Italy. Since 2020 is Head of Devel­op­ment at The Apart­ment Pic­tures, a …

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Award-win­n­ing Amer­ic­an writer and pro­du­cer Frank Spot­nitz is the Chief Exec­ut­ive of Big Light Pro­duc­tions Ltd., over­see­ing a diverse slate of tele­vi­sion series. Most recently, Spot­nitz co-cre­ated and exec­ut­ive pro­duced the drama series Leonardo, star­ring Aidan Turn­er, Fred­die High­more and Mat­ilda De Angel­is, which was a block­buster hit on RAI in Italy and premiered on …

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Born in Par­is, Cyril first stud­ied film­mak­ing at the Sor­bonne, then at UCLA. He then learnt hands-on pro­duc­tion on the sets of Tim Burton’s Edward Scis­sorhands and Laurence Kazdan’s pro­duced film Dizzi­ness. His career in screen­writ­ing and devel­op­ment began at com­pan­ies like Pan­dora, Arte, Canal Plus, Equi­noxe and Tele Images. After a few years as a devel­op­ment exec­ut­ive in …

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Jan Ben­nemann joined Net­flix in April 2021 as Man­ager, Loc­al Lan­guage Series, Ger­many. The seasoned TV exec­ut­ive has 20 years of exper­i­ence in the devel­op­ment, fin­an­cing, pro­duc­tion and acquis­i­tion of seri­al­ized TV drama for the Ger­­­man-speak­­ing and the inter­na­tion­al mar­ket. With his team, Ben­nemann is cur­rently real­iz­ing the second sea­son of the suc­cess­ful Ger­­­man-lan­guage series …

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Dav­id Bian­culli has been the TV crit­ic for Nation­al Pub­lic Radio’s Fresh Air, where he also appears as occa­sion­al guest host, since 1987. He has worked as a TV crit­ic for news­pa­pers in Flor­ida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, most recently for the New York Daily News from 1993–2007. For 14 years, from 2007–21, he …

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Maria has been telling audi­ovisu­al stor­ies for over 15 years. Her pro­fes­sion­al path has lead her through Ger­man TV fic­tion, inde­pend­ent film pro­duc­tion, the pub­lish­ing world, inter­na­tion­al co-pro­­duc­­tions and con­tent for VOD plat­forms. Since 2011, Maria man­aged devel­op­ment and inter­na­tion­al co-pro­­duc­­tions for the Span­ish pro­duc­tion com­pany Pla­no a Pla­no. In 2017, Maria became part of …

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Piod­or Gust­afs­son has more than thirty years of exper­i­ence with­in film, TV and advert­ising. Since Septem­ber 2020 Piod­or is respons­ible for Scrip­ted Con­tent in the Nor­d­ic ter­rit­ory at TV4 Media. Piod­or has pre­vi­ously worked as CEO for Black Spark Film & TV, Head of Pro­gram­ming and Com­mis­sion­ing Edit­or at SVT and as a com­mis­sion­ing Fea­ture …

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Kirsten Itter­sha­gen was born and raised in Ham­burg, Ger­many. After gradu­at­ing her stud­ies of Soci­ology, Cul­tur­al Stud­ies, Polit­ics and Psy­cho­logy at the Uni­ver­sity of Ham­burg, she began work­ing in advert­ising and brand man­age­ment but dreamed of a career in the TV Industry. In 2005 she decided to make the leap of faith. Kirsten Itter­sha­gen moved …

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Domi­n­ique gradu­ated from French lead­ing movie school LA FEMIS with a major in Screen­writ­ing. For ten years, she worked as Dir­ect­or of French Drama and Co-Pro­­duc­­tions at the Canal+ Créa­tion Ori­ginale (Ori­gin­al Pro­gram­ming) Depart­ment, where she played a pivotal role in their series’ devel­op­ment. In 2016, Domi­n­ique was appoin­ted Exec­ut­ive Cre­at­ive VP of Stu­di­ocanal TV …

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Gabor’s career began in the writ­ing staff of a daily seri­al at Grundy UFA in 1999. He became a Cre­at­ive Exec­ut­ive at the Bud­apest office of HBO Europe in 2010, respons­ible for all cre­at­ive aspects of devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion. After leav­ing HBO at the end of 2018, Gabor went on to found his own com­pany, …

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Steve was Con­sult­ing Pro­du­cer on all three series of Neil Jordan’s series The Bor­gi­as for Show­time Net­works, and pro­duced four series of RTE’s award win­ning Dub­lin gang­ster series Love/Hate. He was formerly Head of Devel­op­ment at Ray Winstone’s Size 9 Pro­duc­tions and worked as a script edit­or at the BBC on Silent Wit­ness. He is …

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Born in 1966, Sonia Moy­er­soen first com­pleted a law degree and stud­ied theatre before becom­ing an act­ress. Since 1994, she has developed around a hun­dred TV movies, in the capa­city of Head of Devel­op­ment at GMT Pro­duc­tions: includ­ing Monte-Cristo, Balzac, Les Mis­ér­ables, Aime ton père by Jac­ob Ber­ger. Since 2007, she has super­vised and acted …

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Mag­gie Murphy is an inde­pend­ent Exec­ut­ive Pro­du­cer for Shaft­es­bury U.S. and foun­ded the company’s Los Angeles-based divi­sion focused on devel­op­ment for the U.S., Cana­dian, and inter­na­tion­al mar­kets. She has a new pro­ject in devel­op­ment at CBC in Canada with Katie Ford (MISS CONGENIALITY) writ­ing. Her most recent pro­du­cing cred­it is the drama series HOUDINI & …

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Michaela stud­ied at VŠMU (Slov­akia), DAMU (Czech Repub­lic) and UCLA (Los Angeles). In 2014, Michaela moved to Ber­lin to be part of a Ser­i­al-Eyes pro­gram. An intens­ive 8‑month post­gradu­ate course on TV writ­ing and show run­ning based in Ber­lin. Michaela found her net­work dur­ing the stud­ies and is cur­rently liv­ing in Ber­lin. Michaela was part …

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Donna Sharpe is co-writ­ing TROM, a Dan­ish political/crime thrill­er series (6 x 54 for Viaplay Nor­d­ic, ZDF and the BBC, sched­uled to shoot sum­mer 2020). Pri­or to his, she co-wrote all six epis­odes of Ber­­lin-set espi­on­age drama WEST OF LIBERTY (6 x 45 for ZDF and SVT, 2019), as well as the pilot for Sea­son 2 (in devel­op­ment). …

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Freya Stew­art was born in 1964 in West Ber­lin. She was part of artist col­lect­ives and bands in Ber­lin in the 1980s. In 1986 she immig­rated to Los Angeles, where she worked as an inter­pret­er on film sets, read­er, and script con­sult­ant. 1999 to 2001 she stud­ied screen­writ­ing at dffb and has lived and worked …

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Jo has been an Exec­ut­ive Pro­du­cer at Car­ni­val Films since 2019, after join­ing the team as Head of Devel­op­ment in 2016. Pri­or to join­ing Car­ni­val, Jo was at Kudos Pro­duc­tions, where she was Story Pro­du­cer on The Tun­nel and then Head of Devel­op­ment. Jo trained as a Script Edit­or at the BBC, where she worked …

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Johnath­an Young is a pro­du­cer and exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer with a long his­tory in the tele­vi­sion industry. He joined HBO Europe as an Exec­ut­ive Pro­du­cer in 2014, and was respons­ible for Mamon in the Czech Repub­lic and Pakt in Poland in 2015, and Pakt2 and Valea Muta in Romania in 2016. In Janu­ary 2017 he became …

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Klaus Zimmermann’s career star­ted in 1993 at the Ger­man com­pany Kirch­Gruppe. For two years, he worked in Munich along­side the company’s Dir­ect­or of Pro­duc­tion and Dis­tri­bu­tion, Jan Mojto. He was suc­cess­ively in charge of mar­ket­ing, inter­na­tion­al dis­tri­bu­tion and inter­na­tion­al pro­duc­tions. In this capa­city, he par­ti­cip­ated in pro­duc­tion of anim­a­tion films, fea­ture films, tele­vi­sion series and …

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Han­no Hack­fort was born in Pader­born in 1970. After jobs as Assist­ent Dir­ect­or and musi­cian on sev­er­al theatre pro­duc­tions, he star­ted work­ing as Boomop­er­at­or and Sound Engin­eer on vari­ous TV and fea­ture films in Ger­many and abroad. At the same time, he star­ted dir­ect­ing his own short films and in 2002 he  shot his fea­ture …

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Kirsten Itter­sha­gen was born and raised in Ham­burg, Ger­many. After gradu­at­ing her stud­ies of Soci­ology, Cul­tur­al Stud­ies, Polit­ics and Psy­cho­logy at the Uni­ver­sity of Ham­burg, she began work­ing in advert­ising and brand man­age­ment but dreamed of a career in the TV Industry. In 2005 she decided to make the leap of faith. Kirsten Itter­sha­gen moved …

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Bob Kon­rad was born in Heidel­berg in 1968 and stud­ied at the UdK Ber­lin. Since 1993 he has writ­ten and dir­ec­ted numer­ous radio plays, radio play series and radio com­edy for pub­lic broad­casters. He found his way to tele­vi­sion in 2000 through an anim­a­tion series. His first fea­ture film Bess­er als Schule fol­lowed. Since then …

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Richard Kropf was born in West Ber­lin in 1979. He began his career as an act­or and trained at the Lee Stras­berg Insti­tute in New York before writ­ing the short film Bum Bum in 2005, which he co-dir­ec­ted with Mar­cus Schuster. Kropf then focused on screen­writ­ing and was co-head writer of the SAT1 series Der …

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After study­ing Cul­tur­al Stud­ies and Aes­thet­ic Prac­tices in Hildesheim, Kirsten worked for many years as a script con­sult­ant and cre­at­ive pro­du­cer for weekly TV series (Linden­strasse, ARD). She also provided script con­sult­ing for art­house film pro­jects and developed audi­ence engage­ment strategies for them. In 2017 Kirsten kicked off her own writ­ing career by co-writ­ing the …

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Stefanie Ren, born in 1987 in Pingtung/Taiwan, grew up as the child of a Chinese fath­er and a Ger­man moth­er in the Black Forest. She stud­ied screen­writ­ing at the Fil­makademie Baden-Württem­berg. Her short films won over 70 awards, includ­ing screen­ings in Cannes at Short Tiger and a nom­in­a­tion for the Ger­man Short Film Award for …

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Born and raised in Ber­lin, Den­nis stud­ied film and Amer­ic­an stud­ies in Ber­lin, Zurich, Mainz, and Kan­sas (M.A.). After tak­ing part in Seri­al Eyes, he co-foun­­ded the Ber­­lin-based pro­duc­tion com­pany StickUp Films where is pro­du­cer, part­ner and head of devel­op­ment. He is the cre­at­or of Sky­lines (2019) and showrun­ner on Dop­pe­haushälfte (2021).

Emmy® Award nom­in­ated Eliza­beth Schub Kamir is cur­rently a screen­writer and story edit­or for a new, anim­ated Dis­ney Ori­gin­als series. Pri­or to this role, she has worked as a writer across genres, for major world­wide broad­cast, stream­ing and pro­duc­tion entit­ies. Since 2019, Eliza­beth has been a key cre­at­ive advisor, ment­or, and core tutor at Can­neser­ies …

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Donna Sharpe is co-writ­ing TROM, a Dan­ish political/crime thrill­er series (6 x 54 for Viaplay Nor­d­ic, ZDF and the BBC, sched­uled to shoot sum­mer 2020). Pri­or to his, she co-wrote all six epis­odes of Ber­­lin-set espi­on­age drama WEST OF LIBERTY (6 x 45 for ZDF and SVT, 2019), as well as the pilot for Sea­son 2 (in devel­op­ment). …

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  Sabine Stey­er-Viol­­et is a screen­writer (Oth­er Par­ents, TNT Series or Eldor­ado KadeWe, ARD) and cre­at­ive pro­du­cer (Unortho­dox, Net­flix) and works some­times as a music super­visor too. She stud­ied visu­al com­mu­nic­a­tion with Wim Wenders at the Hoch­schule für bildende Kün­ste Ham­burg and has taken fur­ther train­ing to become a fic­tion pro­du­cer. After her stud­ies she com­pleted a fea­ture …

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Jantje Friese, after gradu­at­ing Uni­ver­sity of Tele­vi­sion and Film Munich (HFF), ini­tially worked as a pro­du­cer, includ­ing The Silence (2010), the dir­ect­ing debut of Baran bo Odar. Togeth­er with Baran bo Odar, she wrote the screen­play for Who Am I – No Sys­tem Is Safe, which was dir­ec­ted by Odar in 2014. In the same …

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Ms. Chan­ning Dun­gey has been Pres­id­ent of ABC Prime­time Enter­tain­ment since Feb­ru­ary 17, 2016. Ms. Dun­gey served as Seni­or Vice Pres­id­ent of Drama at ABC Prime­time Enter­tain­ment since June 2009. She served as Seni­or Vice Pres­id­ent of Drama Devel­op­ment at Touch­stone Tele­vi­sion Pro­duc­tions, LLC (formerly ABC Tele­vi­sion Stu­dio) and also served as its Vice Pres­id­ent …

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Win­ner of the BAFTA for Best Inter­na­tion­al Series, 2012 Jeppe Gjer­vig Gram was born 1976 in Odense, Den­mark. After uni­ver­sity stud­ies, he worked for 6 years as a drama series con­sult­ant for Dan­ish net­work TV 2, deal­ing with acquis­i­tion of inter­na­tion­al series as well as com­mis­sion­ing of ori­gin­al Dan­ish series, before enrolling in the screen­writ­ing …

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Jed Mer­curio is one of the few UK script-writers to work as an Amer­­ic­an-style showrun­ner. His most recent cred­it, Line of Duty, is the most watched BBC2 drama series in the mul­tichan­nel era. His oth­er cred­its include Lady Chatterley’s Lov­er, Crit­ic­al, Strike Back, Bod­ies, The Grim­leys, Invasion:Earth and Car­di­ac Arrest. Line of Duty and Bod­ies …

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  Abi Morgan’s plays include SKINNED and SLEEPING AROUND (Paines Plough); TINY DYNAMITE (Tra­verse); TENDER (Hamp­stead); SPLENDOUR and FUGEE (Nation­al Theatre), LOVESONG (Frantic Assembly) and 27 (NTS) and The MISTRESS CONTRACT (Roy­al Court) . Her tele­vi­sion work includes MY FRAGILE HEART, MURDER, SEX TRAFFIC, TSUNAMI – THE AFTERMATH, WHITE GIRL, ROYAL WEDDING, BIRDSONG and THE …

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Tat­jana Sam­op­jan is a cre­at­ive con­sult­ant, lec­turer and coach spe­cial­ising in devel­op­ment of TV series, films and doc­u­ment­ar­ies. Tat­jana has worked with ACE Pro­du­cers, EAVE, European TV Drama Series Lab, Flanders Audi­ovisu­al Fund, Gothen­burg Film Fest­iv­al, Enter­tain­ment Mas­ter Class, Hel­sinki Script, The Neth­er­lands Film Academy, Inter­na­tion­al Film School Cologne, Uni­ver­sity of Tele­vi­sion and Film Munich, …

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Anna Wing­er is the cre­at­or of the acclaimed TV series  Deutsch­land 83 and Deutsch­land 86. Her nov­el This Must Be the Place is pub­lished by River­head Pen­guin.Her essays have appeared in The NewYork Times Magazine, Con­dé Nast Trav­el­er and the Frank­furter Allge­meine Zei­tung. Her work for Deutsch­land 83 has been awar­ded with an Inter­na­tion­al Emmy …

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