Prologue Entertainment Taps Ken Segna As Head Of Television Development

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EXCLUSIVE: Prologue Entertainment, nan independent movie and tv workplace down Netflix thrillers Zero Day and A House of Dynamite, is expanding its ranks, naming Ken Segna arsenic Head of Television. In nan recently created role, Segna will oversee TV improvement pinch an accent connected building and expanding Prologue’s workplace slate crossed bid and roster of imaginative partnerships.  

This marks nan first elder prosecute for Prologue, nan institution founded successful 2024 by Lloyd Braun, Sarah Bremner and Noah Oppenheim, arsenic it evolves into a afloat work studio. Segna will study to Bremner.

Most recently, Segna was Head of Television for Lee Daniels Entertainment, wherever he oversaw a improvement squad packaging and trading bid nether nan company’s first-look woody pinch 20th Television, pinch projects developed astatine FX, Hulu, Starz, ABC, Disney+, and Onyx. Previously, he served arsenic EVP of Development astatine MRC Television, wherever he oversaw nan development, packaging, and waste of some constricted and ongoing series,  including The Terminal List, The Shrink Next Door, Poker Face, The Shining Girls, Time Bandits, and Hello Tomorrow!.

Earlier successful his career, Segna spent astir a decade astatine Starz wherever he oversaw improvement and accumulation connected immoderate of nan network’s astir defining original series, including Power. He sewage his commencement arsenic a shaper of euphony videos, commercials, and nan characteristic documentary Ain’t successful It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm. He holds a B.S. successful Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and an MFA successful Film Production from nan University of Southern California.

Segna is nan latest summation to Prologue’s increasing team, joining Creative Executive Quinn Wilcox and Director of Creative Affairs Sammy Rosenthal.  

Wilcox antecedently worked successful UCP’s improvement department, contributing to aggregate projects crossed nan studio’s slate. Early successful his career, Wilcox was a portion of nan accumulation institution 3AD, wherever he worked connected ABC’s The Good Doctor, and he served arsenic an adjunct successful nan beingness accumulation section astatine APA (now IAG).  

Rosenthal joined Prologue aft astir 7 years astatine Oscar- and Emmy-nominated shaper Lynette Howell Taylor’s institution 51 Entertainment (Roofman, The Accountant 2) arsenic an executive and producer. While astatine 51 Entertainment, Rosenthal worked crossed some movie and television, shepherding improvement astatine Searchlight Pictures and Fifth Season. She began her profession astatine UTA.

Backed by Jeff Zucker and RedBird Capital Partners, Prologue is building retired a divers slate and precocious announced first look agreements for movie and bid with The Atlantic and best-selling espionage writer David McCloskey.

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