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EXCLUSIVE: Veteran tv executive and shaper Robin Schwartz has joined Story Syndicate, nan movie and tv accumulation institution founded by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, arsenic Head of Scripted. Schwartz will lead each scripted improvement and accumulation for Story Syndicate, which precocious renewed its first-look TV woody pinch Tomorrow Studios, a business pinch ITV Studios, which is led by laminitis and CEO Marty Adelstein and partner and president Becky Clements.
Schwartz, who reports to Garbus and Cogan, succeeds Nellie Reed, who precocious near to motorboat her ain company, Short Stack Productions, with an wide woody astatine A24.
Schwartz will beryllium based retired of Los Angeles and oversee a squad that includes scripted improvement and accumulation executive Carolyn Daucher.
Known arsenic a prolific shaper of nonfiction content, Story Syndicate has made strides successful scripted complete nan past mates of years, which nan institution hopes to proceed pinch Schwartz overseeing nan efforts successful nan arena.
Under nan first-look woody pinch Tomorrow Studios, Story Syndicate successful December landed a straight-to-series order from Netflix for So Far Gone, from writer Mark Bomback, aft a bidding war, and besides has improvement deals for a Claus von Bülow constricted bid astatine Apple TV, pinch Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne writing, and a police procedural inspired by Geraldine Hart from writers Eileen Myers and Jerome Hairston astatine HBO Max.
“I americium elated to beryllium joining Liz and Dan successful expanding their already formidable and elevated scripted business,” Schwartz said. “They – and nan heavy chair of talent they’ve assembled astatine Story Syndicate – are sharp, energetic, curious, and unafraid. As they further task into nan scripted scenery pinch their singular attack to storytelling, I look guardant to helping carve a bold way guardant and reuniting pinch Marty and Becky astatine Tomorrow Studios.”
Schwartz astir precocious was nan President of Television astatine FilmNation. She antecedently ran nan TV divisions of Regency and Big Beach and had her ain banner, Working Bird, nether a producing woody astatine Tomorrow Studios, pinch Daucher arsenic her Head of Development.
With Tomorrow Studios, Schwartz has bid Funny You Should Ask starring Regé-Jean Page in nan useful astatine Apple TV. Working Bird’s improvement slate besides includes a constricted bid based connected Joan Didion’s The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Schwartz’s executive producing credits see nan typical What nan Constitution Means to Me for Prime Video, animated drama Central Park for Apple TV, Tanya Saracho’s bid Vida for Starz, and nan Elizabeth Olsen bid Sorry for Your Loss for Facebook Watch. Additionally, Schwartz oversaw nan first Spanish connection TV adjustment of Isabel Allende’s caller The House of nan Spirits for Amazon LATAM, arsenic good arsenic nan play Small Town Big Story for Sky.
“Robin is an bonzer talent pinch heavy activity experience, awesome writer relationships and exquisite taste,” Cogan and Garbus said. “We’re thrilled for her to return complete activity of this fast-growing division, shepherding our existent projects and helping curate a full caller slate.”
Story Syndicate’s caller documentaries see nan Netflix deed Maternal Instinct, Prime Video’s One Night In Idaho, which has been picked up for a 2nd installment, Season 2 of Roku’s Solo Traveling pinch Tracee Ellis Ross, and Billie Jean King’s Give Me nan Ball! which will beryllium released connected ESPN later this year.
