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Media Educators Conference 2022 Sessions

  • The California Creative Economy

  • A Conversation with Casting Directors

  • Directing for TV

  • Producing with Purpose

  • Pathways from College to Career

  • Industry Insight

  • Showrunner Panel

  • In Conversation with Tony Vinciquerra

  • The Interviews: The Ultimate TV Research Tool

  • Production: The New Normal

Media Educators Conference 2022 Speakers

Keynote Speaker: Tony Vinciquerra (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment)

  • Cris Abrego (Chair, Television Academy Foundation, Chairman of the Americas, Banijay, and President and CEO, Endemol Shine Holdings)

  • Anya Adams (Director, Producer, Black-ish)

  • Daniel Barnes (Executive Producer, Development Executive)

  • Shaz Bennett (Writer, Director, Alaska is a Drag, Queen Sugar)

  • Dan Birman (President, Birman Productions)

  • Natasha Chen (CNN Correspondent)

  • Val Cheung ( Vice President, Production, Shondaland)

  • Kim Coleman (Casting Director)

  • James Pearse Connelly (Production Designer, J.P. Connelly)

  • Jeff Conway (TV Host, Forbes)

  • Jo DiSante (VP of Current Programming, ABC)

  • Jason Ensler (Director, Producer, The Usual Films)

  • Adam Fowler (Founding Partner, CVL Economics)

  • Jossel Franco (Digital Archivist, The Interviews, Television Academy Foundation)

  • Harry Friedman (Executive Producer, Capital One College Bowl on NBC)

  • Jamila Hunter (Executive Vice President, Programming at Freeform/Disney)

  • Krister Johnson (Writer, Producer, Adult Swim, Another Period)

  • Tyler Kahl (Talent Agent, Allegory Creative Management)

  • Phillip Kobylanski (President of Production for Vahalla Entertainment)

  • Albert Lawrence (Media Personality, Producer)

  • Jenni Matz (Director, The Interviews, Television Academy Foundation)

  • Michelle McNulty (Supervising Casting Director, McNulty Casting Inc.)

  • Sev Ohanian (Producer, Screenwriter, Co-Founder Proximity Media)

  • Dr. Rachel Raimist (Director, Queen Sugar, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Queens, The Big Leap)

  • Diallo Riddle (Director, Writer, Actor, Showrunner, Producer)

  • Jason Rothenberg (Showrunner, Creator, The 100)

  • David Rubin (Casting Director)

  • Frank Scherma (Chairman & CEO, Television Academy, President at RadicalMedia LLC)

  • Portia Scott (Director of Voice Over)

  • Pamela Soper (Senior Vice President, Current Programming at CBS)

  • Neil Truglio (Education Director, SeriesFest)

  • Ann Leslie Uzdavinis (Independent Executive Producer)

Thank you to our 2022 Sponsor!


For more information or questions: mediaeducators@televisionacademy.com

Participants at the 2022 Media Educators Conference
Participants at the 2022 Media Educators Conference

updated 5.15.23

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