Bid to win a meeting with Gerard Bocaccio, Head of Television at the Wolper Organization in Los Angeles.
Gerard Bocaccio’s Producing credits include the indie feature films, Playing Mona Lisa and Bad Girls From Valley High. His television producing credits include, Moonlight on CBS, Normal for Lifetime, Stranded on Syfy, Eye Candy for MTV, South Of Hell for WeTV and Klondike for Discovery. A sampling of Gerard’s new projects include among others, The Goof Thief's Guide... for Apple+, Red Brick Road for TNT, Guidance for WBTV, My Name Is Bill for Endeavor Content and Pretty Wasted for NRK and the Norwegian Film Commission.
Gerard’s work as a Studio and Network Executive has seen him develop and associate with award winning content over his 30+ years in the entertainment industry. Most recently as a senior level executive at eOne Television, he shepherded the Emmy nominated and Golden Globe winning limited series, Sharp Objects for HBO; Ice for the Audience Channel; You Me Her also for the Audience Channel and Let's Get Physical for POP among others. Earlier in his career while at FX, he worked on the Emmy Award winning series, The Shield; the Sundance Entry and Cannes Festival film, Redemption; the Humanitas nominated telefilm, Sins Of The Father; and the DGA winning telefilm, The Pentagon Papers among a number of other titles.
He is currently associated with Mark Wolper in his deal at Warner Bros. The Wolper Organization, among others, is responsible for 4 of the most watched events in television history, Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South and The Mists Of Avalon and have set up, a slew of Network and Studio sales over the past few months.
Prior to working with The Wolper Organization, and as a Media Consultant, Gerard founded his eponymous Bocaccio FilmWorks Consulting in 2007 and since then, among others, he most notably launched Blumhouse Television for the prolific producer, Jason Blum; along with the first slate of original scripted programming for the Discovery Channel, while also having advised a hedge fund in its efforts to successfully acquire a major Hollywood Studio.
As a Producer he’s developed shows for the major broadcasters as well as FX, AMC, A&E, USA, Syfy, HBO, Amazon, Epix, MTV, Showtime and VH1.
Earlier in his career while working at Warner Bros. Television, Spelling Television, The Bubble Factory and Silver Pictures Television, he worked on series the likes of Murphy Brown on CBS, The Adventures Of Brisco County, JR. at Fox, China Beach at ABC, The Flash for CBS, The Company at ABC, Life Goes On at ABC as well as Madman Of The People on NBC, Models Inc. for Fox, Savannah for NBC, Kindred: The Embraced for Fox and Sunset Beach for NBC Daytime among others. He was also the Production Executive on 7 feature films, Flipper; Michael Ritchie’s last film, A Simple Wish with Martin Short; John Leguizamo’s The Pest; McHales Navy; Slappy And The Stinkers, and Tim Allen’s For Richer Or Poorer, and Bette Midler in Carl Reiner’s That Old Feeling.
Gerard was a full-time faculty member at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate program from 2011 until 2014 teaching writing for film and television, producing for film and television, production and history of-type critique classes while also actively engaged in Tisch’s myriad film and television festivals and speaking series. He has been an adjunct since 2015, most recently having launched the NYU / LA program in 2018 with his Producing for Film & Television class. In addition to his on-going association with NYU, he has lectured at UCLA, Boston University, The University of Georgia, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The College of William & Mary, the NY Film School and the Columbia College of Chicago.
He has sat on the Advisory Boards for Screenzone LLC and Modern Fidelity LLC and was a Board member for The Wilton Project, a Los Angeles based Theater company. A graduate of NYU, he received a BFA in Theater from Tisch having studied with renowned acting coach, Lee Strasberg for three years. He currently resides in Los Angeles along with his family.