Michelle Adler
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from : 12/27/09
Until : 01/10/10
Until : 01/10/10
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Credits and Employment History
“SEX…WITH MOM & DAD” – MTV NETWORKS – COORDINATING PRODUCER 11/08—03/09
• Oversee & coordinate 20 episode schedule, 12 production teams, and large cast for Season #2 of Docu-Reality series with
Dr. Drew Pinsky for MTV.
• Act as liaison between MTV Network Executives, Production staff and cast members; including contracts, travel. payments, Standards & Practices, Rights & Clearances and Legal.
“WORST COOKS IN AMERICA” – OPTOMEN USA FOR FOOD NETWORK – CHALLENGE PRODUCER 08/08-11/08
• Challenge Producer for new Food Network reality competition cooking series..
• Oversee and develop all cooking related team and individual challenges & rules for both studio & field productions.
RAINBOW MEDIA – LIFESKOOL VOD NETWORK – DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 02/05-03/08
• Conceptualized & created original series, specials, stunts, franchises, properties, and other short-form programming initiatives for Network.
• Oversaw outside production companies through all phases of work; budgeting, casting, writing, production, post & network notes. Negotiated contracts for original programming.
• Evaluated potential programming acquisitions; negotiated & executed contracts.
• Developed program concepts into multiplatform content opportunities – oversaw convergence between On Air programming and On Line.
• Coordinated show support with network departments; Online, Marketing, Publicity, Creative Services & Ad Sales.
• Series: Pleasure Emergency, Road Rage, Katie Brown @ Home, Karaoke Challenge, Buff Fitness
“B. SMITH STYLE” - TRUE ENTERTAINMENT FOR DISCOVERY – SHOW PRODUCER 10/04-01/05
• Developed, wrote and edited 1-hour lifestyle programs for Discovery Daytime.
• Field directed & produced cooking, crafts, fashion & beauty segments.
“BACKSPIN” - TEPTV FOR BRAVO – SUPERVISING PRODUCER 10/03-10/04
• Oversaw 1-hour, celebrity biography clip-style series for Bravo, BackSpin.
• Hired & supervised production and post-production staff of 16.
• Team leader for 3 show producing groups - overseeing all aspects of production: budget, writing, booking, visual design and post. Managed budgets in excess of $1.2 Million.
• Acted as a liaison to Bravo, ensuring on-time & accurate delivery - (show-timing, cue sheets & production bibles)
“TOP 10 MOST NOTORIOUS” - TEPTV FOR A&E – SUPERVISING PRODUCER 10/03-10/04
• Supervised and produced 1-hour, news clip-style special for A&E Biography: Top 10 Most Notorious.
• Oversaw small staff through booking, writing, field shoots, editing & post.
FOLLOW PRODUCTIONS FOR FOOD NETWORK, FINE LIVING & HGTV – SENIOR/SHOW PRODUCER 04/02-10/03
• Developed new programming and specials for Food Network, Fine Living & HGTV with Follow Productions.
• Senior Produced 1-hour specials for HGTV & Fine Living; Under the Tree 2003 & Inside the Auction.
• Show Produced local, national and international location shoots for four concurrent series: Follow that Food (Food Network), Simply Wine with Andrea Immer (Fine Living), The Genuine Article (Fine Living) & Best for Less (Fine Living).
VARIOUS LIFESTYLE PROGRAMS-FREELANCE WRITER/FIELD & SEGMENT PRODUCER 09/95- 04/02
• Field & segment producer for: Intimate Portrait (Lifetime), Pet Department (fX Networks), fXMD (fX Networks), Garden Variety (fX Networks), House Beautiful TV (A&E), Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden (A&E), Cooking Live (Food Network), Incurable Collector (A&E), World’s Best (Travel Channel), America’s Most Wanted (Fox TV), New Attitudes (Lifetime), Minute by Minute (TLC), The Wire (Lifetime).
FOX NEWS CHANNEL – FREELANCE PRODUCER/ASSIGNMENT EDITOR 06/97-04/02
• Producer for FNC Specials unit (Heroes with John Kasich & Crime Wave); shot, wrote & edited topical day-of-air segments.
• As an assignment editor, coordinated satellite feeds & live-shots for breaking news.
“A CURRENT AFFAIR” - FOX TELEVISION – FIELD PRODUCER 03/91-12/95
• Opening sequence producer and segment producer for the original tabloid-news-magazine television program.
• Oversee & coordinate 20 episode schedule, 12 production teams, and large cast for Season #2 of Docu-Reality series with
Dr. Drew Pinsky for MTV.
• Act as liaison between MTV Network Executives, Production staff and cast members; including contracts, travel. payments, Standards & Practices, Rights & Clearances and Legal.
“WORST COOKS IN AMERICA” – OPTOMEN USA FOR FOOD NETWORK – CHALLENGE PRODUCER 08/08-11/08
• Challenge Producer for new Food Network reality competition cooking series..
• Oversee and develop all cooking related team and individual challenges & rules for both studio & field productions.
RAINBOW MEDIA – LIFESKOOL VOD NETWORK – DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 02/05-03/08
• Conceptualized & created original series, specials, stunts, franchises, properties, and other short-form programming initiatives for Network.
• Oversaw outside production companies through all phases of work; budgeting, casting, writing, production, post & network notes. Negotiated contracts for original programming.
• Evaluated potential programming acquisitions; negotiated & executed contracts.
• Developed program concepts into multiplatform content opportunities – oversaw convergence between On Air programming and On Line.
• Coordinated show support with network departments; Online, Marketing, Publicity, Creative Services & Ad Sales.
• Series: Pleasure Emergency, Road Rage, Katie Brown @ Home, Karaoke Challenge, Buff Fitness
“B. SMITH STYLE” - TRUE ENTERTAINMENT FOR DISCOVERY – SHOW PRODUCER 10/04-01/05
• Developed, wrote and edited 1-hour lifestyle programs for Discovery Daytime.
• Field directed & produced cooking, crafts, fashion & beauty segments.
“BACKSPIN” - TEPTV FOR BRAVO – SUPERVISING PRODUCER 10/03-10/04
• Oversaw 1-hour, celebrity biography clip-style series for Bravo, BackSpin.
• Hired & supervised production and post-production staff of 16.
• Team leader for 3 show producing groups - overseeing all aspects of production: budget, writing, booking, visual design and post. Managed budgets in excess of $1.2 Million.
• Acted as a liaison to Bravo, ensuring on-time & accurate delivery - (show-timing, cue sheets & production bibles)
“TOP 10 MOST NOTORIOUS” - TEPTV FOR A&E – SUPERVISING PRODUCER 10/03-10/04
• Supervised and produced 1-hour, news clip-style special for A&E Biography: Top 10 Most Notorious.
• Oversaw small staff through booking, writing, field shoots, editing & post.
FOLLOW PRODUCTIONS FOR FOOD NETWORK, FINE LIVING & HGTV – SENIOR/SHOW PRODUCER 04/02-10/03
• Developed new programming and specials for Food Network, Fine Living & HGTV with Follow Productions.
• Senior Produced 1-hour specials for HGTV & Fine Living; Under the Tree 2003 & Inside the Auction.
• Show Produced local, national and international location shoots for four concurrent series: Follow that Food (Food Network), Simply Wine with Andrea Immer (Fine Living), The Genuine Article (Fine Living) & Best for Less (Fine Living).
VARIOUS LIFESTYLE PROGRAMS-FREELANCE WRITER/FIELD & SEGMENT PRODUCER 09/95- 04/02
• Field & segment producer for: Intimate Portrait (Lifetime), Pet Department (fX Networks), fXMD (fX Networks), Garden Variety (fX Networks), House Beautiful TV (A&E), Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden (A&E), Cooking Live (Food Network), Incurable Collector (A&E), World’s Best (Travel Channel), America’s Most Wanted (Fox TV), New Attitudes (Lifetime), Minute by Minute (TLC), The Wire (Lifetime).
FOX NEWS CHANNEL – FREELANCE PRODUCER/ASSIGNMENT EDITOR 06/97-04/02
• Producer for FNC Specials unit (Heroes with John Kasich & Crime Wave); shot, wrote & edited topical day-of-air segments.
• As an assignment editor, coordinated satellite feeds & live-shots for breaking news.
“A CURRENT AFFAIR” - FOX TELEVISION – FIELD PRODUCER 03/91-12/95
• Opening sequence producer and segment producer for the original tabloid-news-magazine television program.
Industry Qualifications
Active Member - Producers Guild of America
Education
Syracuse University - S.I. Newhouse School, Syracuse, NY
BS, TV Radio & Film Production
BS, TV Radio & Film Production
Technical Equipment
Working knowledge of Avid & FCP editing systems, Avstar & Basys, Windows OS, MS Word & Excel, Movie Magic Budgeting
Work In
New York
Maryland
California - Southern
Maryland
California - Southern
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Licenses & Permits
Basic Driving (PLG)
Would you consider staff positions as well as freelance work?: yes
Do you have a driver's license?: yes
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